What can the pixls.us photographic community help DigiKam?

Fri Mar 24 11:39:41 GMT 2017

Thanks, Gilles! I'll do that. Do you know whom I should contact to get
a KDE Git account?

Best,
Dmitri

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Gilles Caulier
<caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dmitri,
>
> You must ask to a KDE git account. web site source code will be hosted in
> 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 section are outdated, while others need editing.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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