http://deprecated-apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.368.s1.nabble.com/Re-Infrastructure-setup-tp9p31.html
I used the wiki at Github a few times for design proposals and sketches as
So I would be +1 for having a wiki. We can still decide how we want to use
> Regarding the wiki: In the past, we had access to the GitHub Wiki and it
> was not really used (except for GSoC).
>
> There is only one valid use-case I see for the wiki: We could consider
> hosting the documentation in the a and generate the documentation on the
> website from the wiki.
> This way, we would make it super easy for users to contribute to our
> website, and it would also be much easier to maintain the documentation for
> developers.
> Ideally, the Wiki would also use Markdown to make the import as simple as
> possible.
> It seems that INFRA is offering Confluence and Moinmoin as Wiki systems.
> Both system really don't look (and feel) appealing to me.
> There is also a lengthy discussion at Apache CouchDB about exactly the same
> issue:
>
>
http://couchdb-development.1959287.n2.nabble.com/CouchDB-Wiki-Documentation-td4682935.html>
> Their discussion did not really come to an conclusion, but they are
> currently hosting the documentation (outside ASF's infra?) here:
>
http://docs.couchdb.org/> The source for the documentation is located in the main source repository
> of their project.
> So contributors and users have to open pull requests / patches to
> contribute to the documentation.
>
> What do the others think?
>
>
> Regarding Alan's other question: " Also, has someone added permissions for
> flink committers to commit to flink’s SVN?"
> I think our git repository is properly set up, since I'm able to push into
> it.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Ted Dunning <
[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
> > The Apache CMS is pretty easy for posting design proposals as well.
> > Supports mark-down. Easy to write. Easy to update.
> >
> > JIRA attachments work pretty well, also.
> >
> > But confluence was a complete mess for Mahout.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Henry Saputra <
[hidden email]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The main use of wiki I could think of that we may miss is to post
> > > proposals or design discussions.
> > > But we could use dev@ list and JIRA combo to do this.
> > >
> > > - Henry
> > >
> > > On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, Sebastian Schelter <
[hidden email]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > In Mahout, we made very bad experiences with the wiki. Its superslow,
> > > hard
> > > > to overlook and people often abuse it to ask questions. I would
> suggest
> > > to
> > > > concentrate on the website and have users contribute content to the
> > > website
> > > > instead.
> > > >
> > > > --sebastian
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 06/10/2014 05:02 PM, Alan Gates wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Sorry for my absence on helping with the infrastructure setup the
> last
> > > >> couple of weeks. The Hadoop summit and some duties at work took all
> > my
> > > >> time. Thanks to Robert, Henry, and others for jumping in and
> getting
> > > stuff
> > > >> done. According to my list the only piece of infrastructure not yet
> > > setup
> > > >> is the wiki. Did you guys want a wiki? Also, has someone added
> > > >> permissions for flink committers to commit to flink’s SVN? I don’t
> > have
> > > >> permission to add the permissions, but I can chase down someone and
> > have
> > > >> them do it.
> > > >>
> > > >> Alan.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >
> > >
> >
>