[coreboot] wiki backup

[Leah Rowe]

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On 14/06/18 05:28, Taiidan at gmx.com wrote:
> I do not like this...
> 
> I update the wiki on a regular basis for the boards I use and I
> can't understand why another critical choice was made without input
> from the community?
> 
> The new system has less features, doesn't look as good and does
> not feature the current articles.
> 
> Policies like this make it very unfriendly to a new user and help
> ensure that either only expert firmware developers will be able to
> install coreboot themselves the average person will simply be
> forced to buy from a company that sells coreboot systems (of course
> none of them sell systems with real "free firmware")
> 

Git is more portable than MediaWiki. It allows more people to be able
to easily submit documentation changes. The documentation is in the
repo under Documentation/ as Markdown files.

Markdown is much simpler than the markup language used by MediaWiki.

Plus you can make easy frontends for editing files in a git
repository. E.g. GitHub does it. I wouldn't recommend use of GitHub
since it's proprietary, but that's just an example. Where a user
doesn't even need to understand git, they just log in and click
"edit", edit whatever they like in a web interface and then that goes
to a pull request for code review. I'm not sure if coreboot does that.
We tried in Libreboot but it's currently not possible due to a
limitation in Gogs, the software that we use for Git-based code review.

So it's possible to have something wiki-like while being hosted in Git.
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