On Sunday, 15 January 2023 10:33:06 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 10:21 PM Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday, 15 January 2023 08:04:18 CET Ben Cooksley wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > For some time now it has been known to us that the upgrade path from one > > > given Drupal major version to the next is usually a very difficult road > > > with lots of breakage involved. > > > The conversion from Drupal 7 or 8 to Drupal 9 is no different in this > > > regard - basically being a content export and then reimport. > > > > > > Due to the level of disruption and risk of breakage involved this isn't > > > something done lightly but with the end of support for Drupal 8 and the > > > incoming end of support for Drupal 7 we need to take action on this > > > > sooner > > > > > rather later. > > > > > > At this time I'm only focusing on the smaller sites, so akademy.kde.org > > > > (in > > > > > the process of moving to Hugo) and dot.kde.org (to be figured out) are > > > > out > > > > > of scope for this email. > > > > > > We currently have the following sites running on Drupal 7/8: > > > - dot.kde.org > > > - akademy.kde.org > > > - kdevelop.org > > > - skrooge.org > > > - behindkde.org > > > - blogs.kde.org > > > > > > Given that promo is currently not making active use of the site, at this > > > time my intention is to create a static archive of behindkde.org. > > > > > > 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. > > > > Hi Ben, > > Hi Paul, > > > Drupal is, not to put too fine a point on it, terrible in every > > conceivable way > > and we dread having to post to the dot. We welcome the transition away > > from > > it. > > > > Promo has repeatedly asked for WordPress to supersede Drupal for the Dot, > > as > > we have found creating content for a Hugo site (something we do at least > > every > > 2 months for KDE Gear and Plasma announcements) difficult, inflexible, > > slow, > > convoluted, and error-prone. So not much better than Drupal. > > > > As there are already several WordPress-based websites on the KDE > > infrastructure, such as hattps://labplot.kde.org and https://kdenlive.org, > > we > > think that having this is not too much to ask. > > As noted in my email we'll be tackling the Dot in a separate thread, this > is about the smaller sites for now. > Points duly noted though.
Thanks Ben. We appreciate that. Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://floss.social/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde
