Straw poll on wiki replacement

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Folks,

The Foswiki 1.1.x instance running on the rockbox www site has to go. =20
There are many reasons, but the most serious/pressing reason is that its=20
design flaws under even moderate load cause a DoS on the entire www=20
server.

The obvious path is to upgrade Foswiki 1.1.x to 2.x, but that requires=20
creating a new 2.x site, manually importing/copying the old data over,=20
then fixing everything that broke along the way.

Given that level of effort, I'd rather ditch foswiki altogether, and=20
replace it with sometihng that sucks less.

The big question in my mind is if we replace it with another wiki engine=20
or some sort of static site generated out of a git repo -- and=20
ultimately that comes down to workflow. =20

Do we care about having an interactive editor with changes going live=20
instantly, or can it be done via git commits with the live site=20
auto-updated as part of a commit hook?

At the end of the day, the result is the same (revision-controlled=20
templated knowledgebase) with a roughly similar level of migration=20
effort (new template, migrating foswiki markup, server-side=20
infrastructure, etc etc..)

But a static site is arguably not as contributor-friendly as an=20
interactive wiki page editor, requiring git (&| gerrit access),=20
definitely a higher bar.

I use 'nikola' static site generator for my personal site, and already=20
host a dokuwiki instance that is vastly more performant and stable than=20
foswiki.

All else being equal I'd prefer a static site generator, especially with=20
my administrative hat firmly affixed. =20

(Oh, one other thing -- I want things to remain self-hosted, so moving=20
 to something like the github wiki is off the table as far as I'm=20
 concerned..)

Anyone else have thoughts on a path forward?

 - Solomon
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Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
                                      @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
High Springs, FL                      speachy (freenode)

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