Re: About the project

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:52:43 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
Ian writes:

> On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <[email protected]>
>> > Because why make the devops of a web server our problem (eg. dealing with
>> > security, sudden traffic influxes, etc), when we can make it someone
>> else's
>> > problem (ie. Github's)?  We should focus on the software we're creating,
>> > not on devops for websites.
>>
>> Because using yet another wiki makes the conversion of the existing
>> content and the replacement of all the incoming links our problem.
>>
>> And that’s a problem at which we already failed once (in the transition
>> From the old wiki to the current wiki which is still not finished).
>
> Maybe the reason the new wiki failed was because it also uses the awful
> MediaWiki syntax, while the rest of the world has moved on to a
> Markdown-based syntax (like Github Wiki)?

I don’t think that’s a fair assessment — Mediawiki syntax is pretty
decent and nicely full-featured — and I don’t think that markup matters
that much in this. Markdown is nice, but the difference isn’t that big
(I used to think different but changed my stance with experience).

Transitioning simply is a lot of very boring work, and there are lots of
corner cases which don’t work by default.

>> Because I think the problems with the existing site are fundamental, and
>> it
>> > would be very inefficient to solve them incrementally.
>>
>> Do I understand it correctly that with that you mean you consider the
>> cost of fixing the current site incrementally to be higher than the cost
>> of redoing what is needed to make everything work with a rewrite?
>
> Yes, the current site is hideous, I am confident that it would be far more
> work to fix it incrementally than to start again from scratch.

I wouldn’t call it hideous, but I’ll accept your work estimate,
especially given that it’s not about transitioning the content of the
current site into a new design.

Best wishes,
Arne
-- 
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heißt politisch sein
ohne es zu merken

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