What can the pixls.us photographic community help DigiKam?

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi all,

This is the response from Ben by private mail :

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Hi Gilles,

Given the amount of work which we've put in thus far and the time
constraints Sysadmin is under in getting other things done, I think
it's best if they contact us with the details they require. I'd rather
not read a long mailing list thread.

At this stage, i'll be shutting down the Drupal 6 instance on March 31
as we need to protect the security of KDE Infrastructure as a first
priority. This migration has effectively been ready to go (theme
aside) since early February, with the only reason for the delay being
your requirement a theme be customised for Digikam and nobody being
able to do it.

Regards,
Ben

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So it become urgent to switch to a new web site. "Static" proposal from
pixls.us sound like the best solution.

Comments are welcome. Please be constructive.

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier

2017-03-21 10:49 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:

> The contact to KDE team about current www.digikam.org is Ben Cooksley <
> bcooksley at kde.org>
>
> I CC him to contribute to this thread...
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2017-03-21 10:42 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <lazylegs at gmail.com>:
>
>> Pat,
>>
>> Thank you for the detailed outline. If there is anything I can help
>> you with, please do let me know.
>>
>> Best,
>> Dmitri
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 10:13 PM, Pat David <patdavid at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The intention here is to provide a new, modern website that is secure
>> and
>> > maintainable.
>> >
>> > Let me address a couple of possible questions up front:
>> >
>> > 1. The existing site content can be ported over to a new site.  This
>> > includes previous posts in news/blogs and all of the more static pages
>> as
>> > they exist right now.
>> >
>> > The only thing we may have a problem with would be the comment system
>> used
>> > by Drupal.  In this case, old comments are likely not going to get
>> brought
>> > over as actual _comments_.  We can probably bring them over as plain
>> content
>> > that gets appended to existing news/blog items.
>> >
>> > 2. I analyzed the existing site quickly, and noticed that as far as
>> content
>> > pages go, we were looking (roughly) at:
>> >
>> > About
>> > Overview
>> > Features
>> > Awards & Reviews
>> > Related Projects & links
>> > Screenshots
>> > Testimonials
>> > News *
>> > Release Plan
>> > Changelog
>> > Events
>> > Developers Blogs *
>> > Download
>> > digiKam Recipes Book
>> > Documentation
>> > Wiki
>> > FAQ
>> > Support
>> > Donation & Sponsor
>> > Splash-screens
>> > Contribute
>> > Contact
>> >
>> > Items marked with (*) are the most likely candidates for more frequently
>> > published content.  The rest of the pages are probably fairly
>> consistent and
>> > don't change all that often (every release maybe?).
>> >
>> > 3. Contributing to the site is easy, just write your content in a
>> plain-text
>> > markdown file.
>> >
>> > I assume that you don't want to let everyone publish material to your
>> > website?  No matter what the system (CMS/Static/Whatever), you likely
>> want a
>> > check step in the publishing process.  In the case of a static site,
>> it's
>> > handled by commit access to the repo.  If someone w/o access wants to
>> > publish something, send the plain-text file to someone with commit
>> access.
>> >
>> > At GIMP, we can accept patches, or someone can just email the plain-text
>> > files (+ assets) and one of us with commit access manages the rest.
>> >
>> > 4. Comments can be handled the same way we are currently doing it on
>> > pixls.us, that is - an embed at the bottom of a post will display a
>> threaded
>> > conversation about that topic hosted on https://discuss.pixls.us.
>> >
>> > ---
>> >
>> > At the end of the day we want to help, and we know that the dev team
>> likely
>> > would rather be hacking on Digikam.  As such, we're ready and willing
>> to get
>> > a new site up and running, and to help manage things.
>> >
>> > Just let us know if we _shouldn't_ continue working on the site. :)
>> >
>> > Also, is there a contact person for the infrastructure your running the
>> site
>> > on now?  I'm assuming a server that the kde folks have somewhere?
>> >
>> > pat
>> >
>> > PS (interesting sidenote):
>> > I scraped the existing site quickly to get this, and it appears to me
>> that
>> > over the past 5 years the _majority_ of the posts are from two
>> submitters
>> > (digikam + Dmitri).
>> > A table of posts per person by year, since 2006:
>> > https://paste.gnome.org/pwbvlr6ha
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > https://patdavid.net
>> > GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D  18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC
>>
>
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