Re: Future of the dot

On 2020-04-02 14:22, Lays Rodrigues wrote:
> Great work Carl! =D
> Cheers!

Yes, great work.

Improvement idea for the front page: It would be nice, if the pictures 
would link to the articles,
too.

Greetings
Christoph

> 
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 9:04 AM Carl Schwan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> the current dot.kde.org [1] 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 [2] 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 [3] 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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