Re: Retirement of Drupal 7/8 sites (kdevelop, skrooge, blogs, behindkde)

Hi Ben,

As the main developer of Skrooge and administrator and developer of 
skrooge.org (currently on Drupal), _it is normal that I am in charge of 
the migration_.
But, I don't know Hugo and I already have other websites on wordpress,
so I would appreciate if I could make skrooge.org on wordpress.
*Is it possible ?*

Regards,
Stéphane

Le 15/01/2023 à 10:21, Paul Brown a écrit :
> On Sunday, 15 January 2023 08:04:18 CET Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For some time now it has been known to us that the upgrade path from one
>> given Drupal major version to the next is usually a very difficult road
>> with lots of breakage involved.
>> The conversion from Drupal 7 or 8 to Drupal 9 is no different in this
>> regard - basically being a content export and then reimport.
>>
>> Due to the level of disruption and risk of breakage involved this isn't
>> something done lightly but with the end of support for Drupal 8 and the
>> incoming end of support for Drupal 7 we need to take action on this sooner
>> rather later.
>>
>> At this time I'm only focusing on the smaller sites, so akademy.kde.org (in
>> the process of moving to Hugo) and dot.kde.org (to be figured out) are out
>> of scope for this email.
>>
>> We currently have the following sites running on Drupal 7/8:
>> - dot.kde.org
>> - akademy.kde.org
>> - kdevelop.org
>> - skrooge.org
>> - behindkde.org
>> - blogs.kde.org
>>
>> Given that promo is currently not making active use of the site, at this
>> time my intention is to create a static archive of behindkde.org.
>>
>> In the case of KDevelop and Skrooge, it would make the most sense to
>> convert them both into Hugo websites to minimise the long term maintenance
>> cost and to make them part of the KDE family of sites.
>> If anyone would like to work on this please contact me and I will arrange
>> for a sanitized database copy to be made available to you.
>>
>> In the event that doesn't happen, converting them into static sites seems
>> like the best path forward.
> Hi Ben,
>
> Drupal is, not to put too fine a point on it, terrible in every conceivable way
> and we dread having to post to the dot. We welcome the transition away from
> it.
>
> Promo has repeatedly asked for WordPress to supersede Drupal for the Dot, as
> we have found creating content for a Hugo site (something we do at least every
> 2 months for KDE Gear and Plasma announcements) difficult, inflexible, slow,
> convoluted, and error-prone. So not much better than Drupal.
>
> As there are already several WordPress-based websites on the KDE
> infrastructure, such as hattps://labplot.kde.org andhttps://kdenlive.org, we
> think that having this is not too much to ask.
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul