Re: About the project

Steve Dougherty <steve-kVTqj8yhOEv2eFz/[email protected]> Fri, 19 Aug 2016 22:30:17 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
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On 08/11/2016 12:01 PM, Dan Roberts wrote:
> All else being equal, I'm all for cutting costs, but things don't appear
> equal. Migrating the wiki to Github could be a massive undertaking. I
> participated in exactly this migration with the Namecoin project and it was
> a royal pain. Github's mediawiki syntax support was incomplete at the time,
> and pandoc failed to completely translate the pages, leaving heaps of
> manual work for us, even in Namecoin's small wiki.
> 
> How big is the maintenance burden? How much are these costs? When funds
> were nearly depleted, I recall someone mentioned server costs were low
> enough that we could operate effectively indefinitely on the remaining ~3k.
> If true, this sounds like a ton of work to increase our dependency and
> trust on/of third parties.
> 
> I am also quite opposed to further centralizing in Github, but that is
> mostly offset by the security concerns regarding running our own mediawiki.

Agreed.

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