Re: [GMOD-devel] [Gmod-ajax] [Gmod-tripal] Migrating gmod.org advice/RFC

[Hilmar L. <hl...@dr...>]

It should be noted though that this hasn’t been without its downsides. Many links don’t work anymore, some content still needs fixes to formatting, and it was not a small amount of work.

I think it’s fair to say that it worked best (and arguably well) for those projects with small wikis that used no or few extensions, and no or little special HTML formatting.

 -hilmar

> On Sep 2, 2016, at 10:30 AM, Fields, Christopher J <cjf...@il...> wrote:
> 
> Yep, this is essentially what the Bio* groups did when our AWS server went down.  
> 
> chris
> 
> From: Nathan Dunn
> Date: Thursday, September 1, 2016 at 10:58 AM
> To: Scott Cain
> Cc: gmod-devel, Dave Clements, "gmo...@li... <mailto:gmo...@li...>", "gmo...@li... <mailto:gmo...@li...>"
> Subject: Re: [Gmod-ajax] [Gmod-tripal] Migrating gmod.org advice/RFC
> 
> 
> Scott,
> 
> I would advocate moving to GH pages just for the long-term ease of use, permission management, and cost.   There is no server to setup, but you’ll have to configure a Jekyll theme (http://jekyllthemes.org/ <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__jekyllthemes.org_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=fbHa8Njtvh9VmSnzJxiEUTW9NWDwMMwQAzhgZDO41GQ&m=CojK7Cc18ffp_qBkQhoLF_4YFYOr-zhuUg6c_Au3YnE&s=ryxpkC6EWehYCDuuKHKfS1KURvSMvTwhaaOXKnOqAcQ&e=>) and add the content, which is a PITA unless you create a single-page app (which I don’t advocate).  
> 
> My guess is that actually converting the content will be easier (and I’m sure folks in the community will be glad to help).  
> 
> https://github.com/philipashlock/mediawiki-to-markdown <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__github.com_philipashlock_mediawiki-2Dto-2Dmarkdown&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=fbHa8Njtvh9VmSnzJxiEUTW9NWDwMMwQAzhgZDO41GQ&m=CojK7Cc18ffp_qBkQhoLF_4YFYOr-zhuUg6c_Au3YnE&s=j9fv8snqFBe-s77UnlbrVuwXbw-bCDNLcS2JOKrIhDw&e=>
> 
> 
> Nathan
> 
>> On Sep 1, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Scott Cain <sc...@sc... <mailto:sc...@sc...>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm addressing this to a few of the more heavily trafficked GMOD mailing lists in hopes of getting some good advice.  The server that runs gmod.org <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gmod.org_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=fbHa8Njtvh9VmSnzJxiEUTW9NWDwMMwQAzhgZDO41GQ&m=CojK7Cc18ffp_qBkQhoLF_4YFYOr-zhuUg6c_Au3YnE&s=9SBLwkC1jIxIls9Y3UdT5YDF4GYY0EB0OT8-qrnO0D4&e=> is being retired at the end of the month, so I have to find it a new home.  One option includes leaving it at OICR on a new virtual machine, but it will require me to port the existing MediaWiki instance, which I already know won't be fun.
>> 
>> There are other alternatives though--it was suggested recently that the content in gmod.org <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__gmod.org_&d=CwMFaQ&c=8hUWFZcy2Z-Za5rBPlktOQ&r=fbHa8Njtvh9VmSnzJxiEUTW9NWDwMMwQAzhgZDO41GQ&m=CojK7Cc18ffp_qBkQhoLF_4YFYOr-zhuUg6c_Au3YnE&s=9SBLwkC1jIxIls9Y3UdT5YDF4GYY0EB0OT8-qrnO0D4&e=> could be migrated to GitHub pages, which sounds appealing but I have no idea how much work would be involved.  I've also considered migrating to AWS, which I think will be a similar amount of work as the internal migration at OICR but would likely be cheaper in the long run.
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any insights!
>> Scott
>> 
>> 
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