Re: Migrating custom qemu.org infrastructure to GitLab

[Thomas Huth]

On 09/07/2020 12.16, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>>> 2. wiki.qemu.org is a MediaWiki instance. Account creation is a hurdle
>>> to one-time or new contributors. It is unclear whether GitLab's wiki
>>> is expressive enough for a lossless conversion of the existing QEMU
>>> wiki. Any volunteers interested in evaluating the wiki migration would
>>> be appreciated.
>>
>> Yeah, this is a potentially big piece of work. We didn't finish this
>> in libvirt either. Looking at the libvirt mediawiki though, I decided
>> not todo a straight export/import of all content.
> 
> FYI: gitlab wiki is basically just a git repo with markdown pages +
> renderer + gui editor.  You can also update the wiki using git clone +
> edit + git commit + git push.

FWIW, seems like we could use the "pandoc" tool to convert Mediawiki
(our old Wiki) to Markdown (Gitlab wiki). I've done a quick test and
converted https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/MailingLists into
https://gitlab.com/huth/qemu/-/wikis/Contribute/MailingLists with some
few clicks.

But the longer I look at most Wiki pages, the more I think that we
should convert the important pages rather into a part of qemu-web
instead. I'll have a closer look and will suggest some patches when time
permits...

 Thomas