Hi > On 25 Jun 2018, at 09:01, Matthias Kuhn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Tim, > > Wow, thanks for the very detailed answer. >
My Pleasure :-) 8< ————— snip —————— > Having either a proper subdomain like proposed here and/or (if not feasible > quickly) move the whole QGIS project to something like project.qgis.org which > is generic enough to serve for all the subparts, that would be great. > I think we can change this easily enough, project.qgis.org sounds like a nice name. > Especially since the main landing page for the changelog is not projecta but > the mirrored content on the qgis page, it would be good to move things to a > different subdomain. It would also be nice to have a link on top > ofhttp://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/3.0.0/ > <http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/version/3.0.0/> etc. that links to the > mirrored page, once it's there, so people landing on the projecta page will > be redirected to a translated and updated site on qgis.org. > > > The most important question I wanted to raise here is, how can we make sure > that customers landing on the certification page respect it as a trustworthy > platform. Things that come to my mind here > > - Having another subdomain than changelog.qgis.org > > OK I will write a ticket for this, we can do it. Ticket made here https://github.com/kartoza/prj.app/issues/964 > - Having SSL (signed with qgis.org) > > Its on our road map. > - Having a page design that matches qgis.org > Also on our road map to support theming though making it look 100% matched might give us some challenges. > - Having a link from qgis.org > > That would be nice. >> The same for the lessons platform we build (see >> http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/section/list/ >> <http://changelog.qgis.org/en/qgis/section/list/> for all the new training >> materials we have been developing for QGIS) - we could be pulling this over >> to QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> as static content and then incorporating into >> translation workflows there. We have also a translation framework for >> lessons on the platform, but it probably won’t scale well for many many >> languages. > > Wow, that is looking good! It would be great to advertise this more! > > We should probably link it from https://www.qgis.org/en/docs/index.html > >> >> SSL is on our roadmap for projecta, >> >> We are also going to be rebranding it soon as http://prj.app >> <http://prj.app/> (nothing to see there yet) with an on ramping process to >> make it easy for new projects to sign up. >> >> We would be happy to tweak things to include custom domain support for other >> parts of the app e.g. http://lessons.qgis.org <http://lessons.qgis.org/>. >> There are also other interesting things that we built on the platform that >> never really got used - especially the quorum tool which lets you form teams >> in a project, make and record decisions (pre-dated loomio) and has a >> concencus model built in. >> >> For QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> I would suggest to generally keep things as >> you have it - pull static content onto the site and use projecta as backend >> where you prepare content. It is a ‘safe’ way to manage things since once >> content is static, there isnt much that can go wrong and we trade a few >> moving parts in the content preparation phase for basically no moving parts >> in the content delivery stage. > Cool, not much to add from my side. I'm generally happy with the process as > long as a visitor can easily see where the "authoritative" version is located > and whenever the "authoritative" version of a framework is on prj.app it > appears trustworthy for a visitor. Agreed that would be nice. >> >> Hope that sheds some light on the big picture view of things from project’s >> side - and hopefully those with other published software will consider using >> Prj.app in the future to benefit from all the stuff we have built for >> QGIS.org <http://qgis.org/> and to help support us in maintaining the >> platform…. > It does, this platform has a big potential for QGIS but also for other > projects. > > Thanks Matthias. Regards Tim > Best regards > > Matthias — Tim Sutton Co-founder: Kartoza Ex Project chair: QGIS.org Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source: Desktop GIS programming services Geospatial web development GIS Training Consulting Services Skype: timlinux IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net
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