Migrate and refresh documentation on wiki.eclipse.org
The Eclipse Wiki (wiki.eclipse.org) is nearing end of life and will be made read-only in early 2024. See https://gitlab.eclipse.org/eclipsefdn/helpdesk/-/wikis/Wiki-shutdown-plan for details of the full migration plan.
The Eclipse Project has significant resources on the wiki that need to be migrated on the wiki. The current status of the migration is tracked in Eclipse Platform Issue 747. This dev effort is more than simply copying data from wiki.eclipse.org to a new location, but also includes:
- ensuring the information is up to date
- ensuring the information is still relevant
- new format is accessible and useful format
- meets other requirements set out in the above linked issue.
It is expected that there is about 10 days of work to migrate the currently identified documentation. However the estimate for the amount of work will be affected by how out of date the information is and how much "refactoring" of the presentation of the data is.
The expected deliverables are:
- Plan for where individual types of information in the wiki.eclipse.org are migrated to. While the information is all expected to end up in git repos, it may end up in documentation repo, website repo, wiki repo or directly in project repos.
- Contribution of Pull Requests to the various repos according to the plan
- Following standard Eclipse Foundation development process and the specific contribution guidelines of the various Eclipse sub-Projects that contain the git repos identified in the plans (e.g. Eclipse Platform, Eclipse JDT, Eclipse PDE, etc)
There is minimum expected interaction or dependency on the Eclipse Foundation IT teams, with the likely requirement being to create new GitHub repos and/or help configure those repos for features such as GitHub pages. For GitHub organizations that have otterdog enabled already, this effort is expected to minimal.
The way to verify that this work is complete is that the relevant pages on wiki.eclipse.org have been migrated off wiki.eclipse.org.