Decommissioning etherpad and old wiki

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 01:13:47PM +0300, Dan Kenigsberg wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 05:53:54PM +0900, Marc Dequènes (Duck) wrote:
> > Quack,
> > 
> > The wiki content was already converted into the website, and remaining
> > broken links & co were fixed (thanks Garrett). It was merely kept in
> > case some content was forgotten (read-only).
> > 
> > The Etherpad was barely used and a pain to upgrade/maintain, so the
> > infra team with the last remaining user decided to close it.
> > 
> > They are to be removed soon. In fact we already stopped them to track
> > the remaining users, and no one complained. It can be restarted on
> > demand before the removal date.
> > 
> > On 2016-10-26 the resources will be purged. Backup has been made, so
> > nothing is lost but unless there is a good reason it won't be used.
> > 
> > Btw, the wiki@ mailing-list was unused and is now read-only.
> 
> How much resources did old.ovirt.org take? I many occasions, the
> migration to the new git-based site rendered pages almost unreadable. In
> such occasions, I loved going back to old.ovirt.org, to see how a
> feature page was meant to look like.

As a recent example, we got
    [Bug 1383047] New: No wiki pages on Important Vdsm wiki pages
opened. I might be able to guess what this link used to look like, but
seeing is much better.

> 
> Can we keep old.ovirt.org for another year? I see that it is currently
> down.

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