[Mailman-Developers] Converting the Mailman wiki

Mark Sapiro mark at msapiro.net
Fri May 6 18:27:20 CEST 2011


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On 5/6/2011 8:14 AM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> 
> * We have a number of groups to manage write permission and such.  We've used
>  that to control wiki spam.  I don't know enough about Moin's user and
>  permission model to know how that will map, but if possible I'd like to keep
>  as close to the current arrangement as possible.


Moin supports groups and access controls by group. Management of these
is different from Confluence, but I think it can map reasonably well.


> * Some pages are private to the steering committee.  However, I *think*
>   there's only one such page and it's pretty out of date, so I really don't
>   care if we just remove it.


Moin can handle this.


> Right.  I'm okay if people have to do a password reset to gain access.
> Ideally we'd at least port over the users.  I'm also okay if that's not
> possible.


I think it will be possible to port the existing usernames, and as long
as we have email addresses for them, they can do a password reset.

There is an issue in that Moin likes CamelCase UserNames. It's not a
requirement, but without it, the username doesn't link to the user's
home page. User home pages are not required, but they can be handy.

I don't know if it's relevant at this point since we've already decided
on Moin, but if anyone wants to look at or even play with a small Moin
wiki, go to <http://www.grizz.org/wiki/>, and if you have any questions
after looking/playing, ask me. It's OK to add pages to this wiki, but I
will probably delete them after a short time.


> Nothing more from me at the moment.  Mark might have additional comments since
> he's probably the most frequent author on the wiki.  Thanks for your help!


I don't have anything at the moment beyond what's above.

- -- 
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
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