[Nix-dev] NixOS-Wiki alternative. Was: What license does the content of the nixos wiki and the manuals have?

Eelco Dolstra eelco.dolstra at logicblox.com
Fri Sep 25 16:52:24 CEST 2015


Hi,

On 25/09/15 16:04, Matthias Beyer wrote:

>> This is essentially how the NixOS homepage is built, i.e., a git repository +
>> Template Toolkit + a makefile. And of course you can make pull requests on
>> GitHub. But I wouldn't call that a wiki, since you can't easily edit it from a
>> browser, or make it world-writable. But if we do want go that way, another
>> possibility is GitHub Pages + Jekyll.
> 
> github pages + jekyll is _exactly_ what I proposed.

Ah sorry, I didn't read properly.

>> The main advantage of using a GitHub wiki is that we then don't have to manage
>> user accounts and deal with spammers.
> 
> As we would use github for PR merging when using a static-site-wiki. So this
> holds true for static pages as I proposed, too.

Right.

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