Re: Future of the dot

Great work Carl! =D
Cheers!

On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 9:04 AM Carl Schwan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> the current dot.kde.org website is still using the old web design and an
> old version of the Drupal CMS. I have been working on an updated version of
> the dot using Hugo instead.
>
> The updated dot as the following advantage, it uses the current theme used
> in other websites, it is faster to load, is more secure and need less
> maintenance.
>
> A current demo is available here: https://irl.carlschwan.eu/.
>
> This will require some change in our editing workflow for a new article
> since the content is now stored in git and Gitlab. There is two different
> way how we could draft article without making then public on the web.
>
> * Using the GitLab workflow for stuff that are not sensitive. This means
> to create a new issue for each new dot article, click on the "create merge
> request" button and then open the web IDE to get a powerful text editor and
> merging when we want to publish. This won't make the text draft invisible
> to all since people can still see all the open merge requests if they want.
> But for stuff that we discuss in the Promo channel and are technically
> visible for all, this won't change anything.
>
> * For stuff that really needs to be invisible until the announcement (e.g.
> big donations, collaboration announcements), the best way would be to
> create a shared document on share.kde.org and share it with the people
> who should see it only and then copy it in Gitlab when this should be
> visible.
>
> This is a bit more complex but allows for some interesting improvement in
> our workflow. For example, we get issue tracking for each article we want
> to post with time tracking. This allows also people who are not dot editor
> to submit an article for review. And we get the powerful code review
> features from GitLab for the articles (adding comments and suggesting
> changes). The editing will also be done in markdown, this should be easier
> than editing HTML like in the current interface (HTML is also supported).
>
> For those, we dot editor access, please log at least one time in
> invent.kde.org with your identity credential, so that an invent account
> is created and that sysadmin can grant you access to the repository.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl



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