Re: When and how can we migrate out of CVS and WML ? (Re: How to make Debian more attractive for users)

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:25:08AM +0300, Andrei Popescu a écrit :
> 
> the people complaining about wml did not mention what 
> the issues were and did not propose an alternative.

Hi Andrei,

What I learn in Debian I use elsewhere, and what I learn elsewhere I use
in Debian. There are exceptions such as WML, which seems to be a dead end.

I think that there could be more people working on our website if it were using
some system that is used by Debian contributors for their own sites or at their
workplace. At least for me, I am not interested to study WML, so my
contributions are limited to modify or delete pages in my area of interest, but
I am not making new developments.

I notice that for the part of the website I am intersted in, there is almost no
development at all, and that much more content is added to wiki.debian.org.
Still, I like the idea to have on www.debian.org informations for the general
public and users, and on wiki.debian.org some contents more volatile and in
construction.

I am exploring how possible it would be to use the markdown syntax through
ikiwiki to reproduce the pages under /devel/debian-med. It looks quite
promising.

Do you or somebody else know what are the areas of our website that crucially
depend on specialised functions or scripts of WML, and if these pages are
still maintained ?

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan