Documentation unclear on whether chg-multi is deprecated

[Hawk777]

The wiki page for chg-multi has a big red banner saying chg-multi is deprecated. However, the documentation for the diskflat device, which was added very recently, also claims that chg-multi is the only way to use diskflat. This is confusing. Is chg-multi deprecated? If not, why does the documentation say it is? If so, why was a new feature added in 3.4.4 that requires its use?

[djmitche]

That wiki page is for the chg-multi changer script -- from like 20 years ago.

As the NOTE says:

There are two versions of this changer -- the new version and the old version. See amanda-changers(7) for details.

The chg-multi changer is still supported.

[Hawk777]

Oh, that makes sense. Perhaps someone with edit access to the wiki could make it clear that the wiki page is only about the old chg-multi and not the new one? While I saw that there were two versions, it was not obvious to me that the deprecation only applied to the old one.

[djmitche]

I suspect that page could just be deleted! I don't have permission, though. It's really more like 12 years -- I was the one to build the "changer API 2.0" and I haven't worked on this for 10 years..

[stefangweichinger]

That zmanda-wiki is outdated and neglected like the community edition of amanda. I also don't have access anymore, for years.
I tried to trigger a password reset: the Wiki server fails to do so with an email issue (can't send).

@chassell pls reopen and fix that wiki or let's for example transfer the content into a wiki here on github, where people could contribute.

[chassell]

@stefangweichinger we just turned the wiki OFF because we found tons of spam being uploaded apparently to help serve text output of some type if you craft the URL just right. slimey.

When it is up... I probably will not maintain it but we should get you back into it.

Afraid to say I'm not sure when they'll have it up! Darnit.

[stefangweichinger]

@chassell thanks for the status. That wiki-content needs an overhaul as well, sure. Totally understandable that you won't be able to maintain code and docs all on your own, right. I wonder if we could get the community to contribute as well.