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Git-powered wikis improved - GitHub

87 points by obilgic 16y ago

jburwell 16y ago
A good step in the right direction. I look forward to similar treatment to the ticket system to provide real workflow and field customization would shore up one of the largest gaps in their product. If they combined distributed version control, tickets, wiki, and HTML5 offline browser capabilities, Github would be close to the perfect CM tool.
- obilgic 16y ago
  New ticket system is what github needs for sure.
  - jonursenbach 16y ago
    Agreed. The lack of a decent issue system is the one thing keeping from us being 100% on GitHub.
    - ra 16y ago
      Same for us. It's just a little bit too simple to be useful for anything but a solo project.
      - evanrmurphy 16y ago
        For a solo project though, the simplicity is really refreshing.
        steveklabnik 16y ago
        Yes, this for sure. Issues isn't perfect. I dislike the way that the AJAX-y elements work, there's no "read all" button, sometimes I have problems setting colors and such, there's no way to attach a pull request to an existing Issue... but seriously, if I have to use something as complicated as Mantis or Rally to manage tickets, I just won't do it.
  - nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
    If I might be allowed to plug my own solutions, I wrote a set of plugins for Mantis Bug Tracker that gives it excellent integration with Github: http://leetcode.net/projects/mantisbt http://leetcode.net/projects/mantisbt
swah 16y ago
Do you guys also feel like the Github folks always deliver geratly designed web pages?
bootload 16y ago
noticed Gollum supports Pod ~ http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html as a markup language. Didn't know that ruby supported a perl interface so I had a poke around wondering how and via gollum found this in github markup tree ~ https://github.com/github/markup/blob/master/lib/github/markups.rb https://github.com/github/markup/blob/master/lib/github/mark... # pod2html is nice enough to generate a # full-on HTML document for us, # so we return the favor by ripping out the good parts. # Any block passed to `command` will be handed # the command's STDOUT for post processing. command("/usr/bin/env perl -MPod::Simple::HTML -e Pod::Simple::HTML::go", /pod/) do |rendered| if rendered =~ /\s*(.+)\s*/mi $1 end end
swah 16y ago
Ok, that was much easier than installing Mediawiki! sudo gem install gollum rdiscount # gollum + markdown support cd mywiki git init gollum and you're rolling.

87 points by obilgic 16y ago

A good step in the right direction. I look forward to similar treatment to the ticket system to provide real workflow and field customization would shore up one of the largest gaps in their product. If they combined distributed version control, tickets, wiki, and HTML5 offline browser capabilities, Github would be close to the perfect CM tool.

obilgic 16y ago
New ticket system is what github needs for sure.
- jonursenbach 16y ago
  Agreed. The lack of a decent issue system is the one thing keeping from us being 100% on GitHub.
  - ra 16y ago
    Same for us. It's just a little bit too simple to be useful for anything but a solo project.
    - evanrmurphy 16y ago
      For a solo project though, the simplicity is really refreshing.
      - steveklabnik 16y ago
        Yes, this for sure. Issues isn't perfect. I dislike the way that the AJAX-y elements work, there's no "read all" button, sometimes I have problems setting colors and such, there's no way to attach a pull request to an existing Issue... but seriously, if I have to use something as complicated as Mantis or Rally to manage tickets, I just won't do it.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y ago
  If I might be allowed to plug my own solutions, I wrote a set of plugins for Mantis Bug Tracker that gives it excellent integration with Github: http://leetcode.net/projects/mantisbt http://leetcode.net/projects/mantisbt

swah 16y ago

Do you guys also feel like the Github folks always deliver geratly designed web pages?

bootload 16y ago

noticed Gollum supports Pod ~ http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html as a markup language. Didn't know that ruby supported a perl interface so I had a poke around wondering how and via gollum found this in github markup tree ~ https://github.com/github/markup/blob/master/lib/github/markups.rb https://github.com/github/markup/blob/master/lib/github/mark... # pod2html is nice enough to generate a # full-on HTML document for us, # so we return the favor by ripping out the good parts. # Any block passed to `command` will be handed # the command's STDOUT for post processing. command("/usr/bin/env perl -MPod::Simple::HTML -e Pod::Simple::HTML::go", /pod/) do |rendered| if rendered =~ /\s*(.+)\s*/mi $1 end end

swah 16y ago

Ok, that was much easier than installing Mediawiki! sudo gem install gollum rdiscount # gollum + markdown support cd mywiki git init gollum and you're rolling.