On Sat, Nov 9, 2019 at 12:50 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote: > > Hi all,
Hi all, > > In terms of project specific sites, we are in a reasonably good state > here, with most sites being based off either a standard CMS or static > site generator (which are relatively easy to maintain in bulk with the > incremental effort being much lower). > > There are some exceptions though, and in the case where the service no > longer appears to be in use, or the project in question now inactive, > it makes more sense for us to render the sites into either static > copies, or to discontinue the service. > > I'd therefore like to propose that the following websites be converted > into static copies: As we've not received any commentary on the below, with the exception of RKWard, I have now gone ahead and started the process of actioning this. > > - Commit Digest (commit-digest.org): The last time this was updated > was back in 2014, with the most recent issue there being nearly 5 > years old. > The process of converting this to a static site is now underway. > - RKWard (rkward.kde.org): This site is currently based on Mediawiki, > which is substantially more difficult to maintain and keep updated > compared to a site built using Hugo, Jekyll, Wordpress or Drupal. > > Given that the site was last updated back in early 2018, i'd like to > make this static, and should updates need to be made in the future the > content can then be converted at that time into something more easy to > maintain. > Following discussion with the RKWard developers and thanks to the help of Carl, this has now been converted to a Jekyll site. > - Simon (simon.kde.org): While this site is based on Drupal, the > project itself hasn't seen a release now since 2013, more than 5 years > ago. Given that this seems to be unlikely to change soon, it makes > more sense at this stage to remove even the incremental cost of > maintaining it's Drupal instance, and convert it to a static site. > This has now been made static, and the Drupal instance archived. > - Marble (marble.kde.org): Whilst this site is for the most part a > minimally dynamic site, it has a component to it which essentially > replicates Planet, just having Marble only postings. This necessitates > custom logic on the server side, which is something no other site > (including www.kde.org) has. > > I'd therefore like to eliminate this logic (leaving the rest of the > site as it is) > This is in the process of being scheduled currently. > - Vvave Stream (vvave-stream.kde.org): This site was originally > created as an "online platform for the Babe music player" (which was > subsequently renamed to Vvave). > > Based on server logs however it appears to be essentially unused, and > given that it is Python based (which is one of the more maintenance > intensive forms of hosting we provide) i'd like to shut this down. > This has now been archived and shutdown. > Any comments regarding the above? > > Cheers, > Ben Thanks, Ben