What can the pixls.us photographic community help DigiKam?

Fri Mar 24 10:25:16 GMT 2017

Dmitri,

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git now. There is no CMS anymore.

Gilles

2017-03-24 10:00 GMT+01:00 Dmitri Popov <lazylegs at gmail.com>:

> Hi Mica,
>
> First of all, thank you for going ahead with the project! I don't have
> much to say about the structure and template, but I think that some
> content needs to be revised. For example, some entries in the FAQ
> section are outdated, while others need editing. I'd like to do that
> once the new website is operational, but I'd need an access to the new
> website and maybe some basic instructions on how to add and edit
> contents.
>
> Thanks,
> Dmitri
>
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 8:20 AM,  <mica at silentumbrella.com> wrote:
> > I've started hacking on a template here:
> > https://github.com/pixlsus/digikam_website_theme. I registered a KDE
> > Identity and I'll request developer access this weekend.
> >
> > Questions about the content:
> > 1. About > Screenshots page: Are these up to date? Do we really need all
> of
> > them?
> > 2. FAQ page: Can we collapse this into one page?
> > 3. I'd like to stream line some of the content pages, as there are many,
> > what are the thoughts on this?
> > 4. Is there any color scheme anyone had in mind? If possible, please
> provide
> > hex codes. This far I've borrowed a few colors from the KDE website.
> >
> > Lastly, are there any additions that anyone would like to see to the
> > website?
> >
> > Best,
> > Mica
> >
> >
> > On 2017-03-22 00:36, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >>
> >> Ben Cooksley email is <bcooksley at kde.org>
> >>
> >> Gilles Caulier
> >>
> >> 2017-03-22 8:35 GMT+01:00 <mica at silentumbrella.com>:
> >>
> >>> Hello all,
> >>>
> >>> I can get in touch with Ben if someone would like to send me his
> >>> contact information.
> >>>
> >>> A quick recap, so we're all on the same page:
> >>> - drupal site being shut down on March 31
> >>> - migration to static site using Hugo (http://gohugo.io [1]) and a
> >>> redesign proposed
> >>> -- template based on Zurb Foundation 6
> >>> -- current URLs taken into account & can generate redirects
> >>> - requires webhosting, which pixls.us [2] can provide, but pixls.us
> >>> [2] members would like to use KDE/digikam's current hosting if
> >>> possible
> >>> -- static site requires only a webserver such as apache and rsync
> >>> over SSH access to the webroot for digikam.org [3]
> >>> - site maintained in git; authorization determined by hosting
> >>> platform, e.g. github, gitlab,
> >>> - continuous integration like TraviCI, can be used to build and
> >>> deploy the site when a commit is pushed to master
> >>> - current admin should back up the drupal database for posterity
> >>> - current pages (but not page history) can be migrated
> >>>
> >>> Pat was kind enough to write a script to scrape all the news
> >>> articles from digikam.org [3], which composed the bulk of content to
> >>> be migrated, and format the results with the proper metadata for
> >>> hugo. I set up the project scaffolding and migrated some of the
> >>> non-news pages (there are pages that still need to be migrated).
> >>>
> >>> You can see the content we've migrated so far here:
> >>> https://github.com/pixlsus/digikam_website [4]
> >>>
> >>> There probably isn't much more content to migrate. I'll follow up
> >>> with some questions about the content and migrate the remaining
> >>> necessary pages.
> >>>
> >>> You can run hugo locally to see the progress:
> >>> $ wget
> >>>
> >>
> >> https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases/download/v0.19/hugo_
> 0.19_Linux-64bit.tar.gz
> >>>
> >>> [5]
> >>> $ tar -zxvf hugo_0.19_Linux-64bit.tar.gz
> >>> $ git clone https://github.com/pixlsus/digikam_website [4]
> >>> $ cd digikam_website/themes
> >>> $ git clone https://github.com/tummychow/lanyon-hugo [6]
> >>>
> >>> $ cd ..
> >>> $ ./path/to/hugo serve --theme=lanyon-hugo
> >>>
> >>> I can't say we'll have a 100% finished & beautiful website by March
> >>> 31, but I believe we can be pretty close to finished & very
> >>> functional by that date.
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> Mica
> >>>
> >>> On 2017-03-21 23:37, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Note : when Ben said " I think it's best if they contact us with
> >>> the
> >>> details they require. I'd rather
> >>> not read a long mailing list thread." : the "they" want mean
> >>> Pixls.us
> >>> team of course....
> >>>
> >>> Gilles Caulier
> >>>
> >>> 2017-03-22 7:36 GMT+01:00 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> This is the response from Ben by private mail :
> >>>
> >>> // ---------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> 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
> >>>
> >>> //
> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> So it become urgent to switch to a new web site. "Static" proposal
> >>> from pixls.us [2] [1] 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 [7] [2] 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 [2] [1], that is - an embed at the bottom of a post will
> >>> display a threaded
> >>> conversation about that topic hosted on https://discuss.pixls.us
> >>> [8]
> >>> [3].
> >>>
> >>> ---
> >>>
> >>> 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 [9] [4]
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> https://patdavid.net [10] [5]
> >>> GPG: 66D1 7CA6 8088 4874 946D 18BD 67C7 6219 89E9 57AC
> >>
> >>
> >> Links:
> >> ------
> >> [1] http://pixls.us [2]
> >> [2] http://www.digikam.org [7]
> >> [3] https://discuss.pixls.us [8]
> >> [4] https://paste.gnome.org/pwbvlr6ha [9]
> >> [5] https://patdavid.net [10]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Links:
> >> ------
> >> [1] http://gohugo.io
> >> [2] http://pixls.us
> >> [3] http://digikam.org
> >> [4] https://github.com/pixlsus/digikam_website
> >> [5]
> >>
> >> https://github.com/spf13/hugo/releases/download/v0.19/hugo_
> 0.19_Linux-64bit.tar.gz
> >> [6] https://github.com/tummychow/lanyon-hugo
> >> [7] http://www.digikam.org
> >> [8] https://discuss.pixls.us
> >> [9] https://paste.gnome.org/pwbvlr6ha
> >> [10] https://patdavid.net
> >
> >
>
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