How about keeping things in the GitHub wiki that are very tightly couple to the 
use of that repo? Like style guides? Building guides? Eh... does ASF have any 
input on using the GitHub wiki over the ASF wiki?

> On Apr 23, 2020, at 2:40 PM, Anthony Baker <aba...@pivotal.io> wrote:
> 
> Having used pretty every style of wiki, I care less about the wiki tech and 
> more about making the content easily accessible and discoverable for our 
> users and contributors.  Our current wiki has a lot of useful information.  
> I’d like to understand how we want to use repo-specific wiki’s to augment or 
> replace our current project wiki (or neither)\ before taking any decisions.
> 
> Anthony
> 
> 
>> On Apr 23, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Blake Bender <bben...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>> 
>> GitHub Wiki supports Markdown, our current one does not.  This means GitHub
>> wins by default in my book.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Blake
>> 
>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:50 AM Anthony Baker <aba...@pivotal.io> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Naba, do you have any updates to share?  I’m curious if you have found
>>> this useful compared to JIRA.
>>> 
>>> Also, I noticed that geode-kafka-connector also has a GitHub wiki.  How
>>> does that compare with centralizing our information in the ASF confluence
>>> wiki?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Anthony
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 21, 2020, at 5:16 PM, Nabarun Nag <n...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello team,
>>>> 
>>>> We are planning to experiment with using Github issues and wiki for the
>>>> Apache project *Geode-Kafka-Connector. *(not Apache Geode project).
>>> Please
>>>> do give your vote on this as we need to send the vote link to infra to
>>>> activate it.
>>>> 
>>>> *Why are we doing this ? / Advantages* :
>>>> 1. *Unified location* to have documentation, code and issue tracking.
>>>> 2. Leverage Github tools like Github pages to create websites hosting
>>>> information about the project.
>>>> 3. No separate JIRA accounts or permission required to create issues.
>>>> 4. This will have *no impact on the broader Geode community* as right now
>>>> only 3-4 developers involved in this project.
>>>> 5. *This is an experiment.* If things do not work out we can always
>>> revert
>>>> back to the traditional way of having separate JIRA, documentation,
>>>> websites etc.
>>>> 
>>>> *Precedence*:
>>>> 1. Kubernetes uses the github issues
>>>> 2. RabbitMQ uses github issues.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> *NOTE: *- Please be cordial and do not use any condescending language and
>>>> absolutely no bullying.
>>>> - Please treat this email as a professional business email and maintain
>>>> email etiquette while replying.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards
>>>> Nabarun
>>> 
>>> 
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