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

Milian Wolff <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Jan 2023 10:08:27 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.devel.kdevelop,gmane.comp.kde.devel.community,gmane.comp.kde.promotion,gmane.comp.kde.www
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On Montag, 16. Januar 2023 09:59:51 CET Alexander Zhigalin wrote:
> In data 16/01/2023 09:27:59 CET, Milian Wolff ha scritto:
> > On Sonntag, 15. Januar 2023 08:04:18 CET Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> 
> Hello
> 
> > <snip>
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I agree, we really need to make the kdevelop website a static one. One way
> > or another, can you please send me the database copy already such that we
> > keep that state archived at least?
> > 
> > Do we have a tool or someone with basic knowledge of converting from
> > Drupal
> > 8 to Hugo? I have limited time for this, but before the website gets nuked
> > completely, I'll try to find some time to at least get a basic static
> > version out and up and running. But any help would be really appreciated
> > on
> > that front.
> 
> There are tools or rather helpers because they require manual operations
> either before and after the conversion.
> I don't have conversion to Hugo experience but I worked both on Hugo and on
> Drupal sites and it seems like a reasonably fast job to do so if you need
> someone I'm here.
> Btw, is someone already working on it? Because all the pages besides home
> and downloads are in maintenance right now.

I got reminded that Tarcisio (CC'ed) started work on it. But the maintenance 
mode was enabled to prevent security issues due to the usage of the old drupal 
installation by Ben.

https://invent.kde.org/tarcisiofischer/kdevelop-www

Tarcisio, what's the status on that front? Is that already usable to some 
degree as a quick replacement for the old KDevelop website? What's missing?

Thanks
-- 
Milian Wolff
[email protected]
http://milianw.de

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