[Gluster-infra] [Gluster-users] Anyone willing to help out with GlusterFS infrastructure?

[Michael DePaulo]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Michael Scherer <mscherer at redhat.com> wrote:
> Le samedi 04 octobre 2014 à 12:49 -0400, Michael DePaulo a écrit :
>> On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 9:11 AM, Michael DePaulo <mikedep333 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Justin Clift <justin at gluster.org> wrote:
>> >> On 03/10/2014, at 1:21 AM, Michael DePaulo wrote:
>> >>> On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 7:34 PM, Justin Clift <justin at gluster.org> wrote:
>> >>>> As a thought, we have a bunch of VM's and similar online for GlusterFS,
>> >>>> running regression tests, our git repos, the main website, and so on.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> It's interesting stuff sometimes, and other times a bit of a time kill... ;)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Is anyone out there with a bit of time occasionally to help out, keeping
>> >>>> this stuff running, helping keep the website updated, and so on?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Note - asking for ongoing volunteers, NOT looking for people wanting a
>> >>>> paid job. :)
>> >>> [...]
>> >>>
>> >>> I'm interested.
>> >>>
>> >>> My day job is that I'm a sysadmin in support of software developers.
>> >>>
>> >>> In my free time, I contribute to the X2Go project. In addition to
>> >>> writing the actual X2Go code, I've been helping them with their build
>> >>> infrastructure, build scripts, wiki (main website), etc.
>> >>
>> >> Cool. :)
>> >>
>> >> We have a Gluster Infrastructure mailing list here:
>> >>
>> >>   http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-infra
>> >>
>> >> Would you be ok to add yourself to that?  There is a bunch of stuff under
>> >> way, but none of it is very well organised atm, and some of it's progressing
>> >> super slow. :/
>> >
>> > I just added myself. Should I add myself to the Gluster Devel mailing list too?
>> >
>> >> As a first thought, do you have any skill (or interest) in Gerrit, Jenkins,
>> >> or MediaWiki?  (X2Go seems to run a different wiki flavour, so unsure)
>> >
>> > No experience with Gerrit, but I am interested in it.
>> >
>> > Jenkins, we recently started using it on X2Go. I have some experience
>> > with it. I am interested in it.
>> > http://jenkins.x2go.org:8080/
>> > (Currently, I'm trying to setup X2Go builds with Jenkins and Raspbian
>> > Wheezy on a Raspberry Pi.)
>> >
>> > MediaWiki: Yes, we use DokuWiki on X2Go. But I have used it on various
>> > MediaWiki wikis on the web. And it's not that much different from
>> > DokuWiki (I think.) And yes, I am interested. I love any piece of
>> > software that offers version control :).
>> >
>> > Also, a few months ago, I looked around but could not find a git repo
>> > for the DGO samba packages. (I did find the SRPMs and could view the
>> > changelog in the spec file.) That's something I am interested in
>> > helping with.
>> > http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/samba/
>> >
>> >> Actually, we should probably discuss this through the gluster-infra mailing
>> >> list.  Jump on there and we'll start doing stuff through that. :)
>> >
>> > I'm on the list.
>> >
>> > I'm going to start looking through the gluster.org main website and wiki.
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Regards and best wishes,
>> >>
>> >> Justin Clift
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>> -Mike
>> > [...]
>> >
>> > -Mike
>>
>> I spent some time reviewing the contents of the main website. I took
>> some notes on issues I'd like to fix.
>>
>> (I just realized that the gluster main website site is generated from
>> the git repo on glusterforge and that there is a documentation writing
>> page. So I'll review those.)
>>
>> However, eventually I started to wonder: What is the relationship
>> between the main website the wiki? It like certain pages like this
>> one:
>> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/GlusterFS_Concepts
>> Contain info already present on the main site.
>>
>> And I just realized that there is a copy (or slightly different
>> version) of the getting started guide here:
>> http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Getting_started_overview
>> In addition to the getting started guide on the main site:
>> http://gluster.org/documentation/Getting_started_overview/
>
> There is no relationship, besides being hosted on the same server.
>
> I am personnaly in favor of using the static website rather than wiki
> because this is easier to host and because this reduce spamming issue,
> but there is a learning curve on the static website that wiki do not
> have.
> --
> Michael Scherer
> Open Source and Standards, Sysadmin
[...]

Understood. But how should duplicate content be handled? Should the
wiki have its getting started guide replaced with a link to the static
website's getting started guide?

-Mike