On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 4:10 AM Thomas Friedrichsmeier <thomas.friedrichsme...@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote: > > Hi Ben,
Hi Thomas, > > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 12:50:07 +1300 > Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote: > > - 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. > > please not static. I know we have not been active of late, but it > totally won't help, if we need to climb a hill of administrative tasks, > before we can even get starting thinking about making a new release. > Frankly, we did not come to KDE back in the day in order to increase > our administrative overhead... > > We're really open to solutions of all kinds. Twice sysadmin had > proposed to somehow unify the rkward mediawiki installation with > the techbase and userbase installation. We gave green light on both > occasions, but nothing happened after that. Apologies for that - in each instance the person who was going to work on it disappeared. > > I wouldn't mind any other hosting solution, really, it doesn't have to > be wiki-based. Provided that we can have a - relatively - smooth > migration path, and that we don't have to switch to something new yet > again, in two or three years. Would something based on Markdown be sufficient for this? There appear to be Mediawiki -> Markdown converters out there we can use which will get us 95% of the way there. > > Regards > Thomas Cheers, Ben
