do you need www.kde.org write access?

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Thu Mar 8 07:44:13 GMT 2018


On Thursday, 8 March 2018 07:57:27 CET Ben Cooksley wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:42 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 7 March 2018 12:31:21 CET Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >> 
> >> We have been working on a modernized website and backend for www.kde.org.
> >> The new site will do away with the old PHP custom CMS and will run
> >> wordpress instead.
> > 
> > Does that mean we'll lose our history, just like koffice.org history from
> > the php times is only in subversion anymore and the wordpress (or
> > whatever it was) content is completely gone?
> 
> The current content of www.kde.org will still remain in Subversion at
> the very least.
> From my understanding the plan Sebas has mentioned envisages a
> temporary www-legacy.kde.org hostname being kept around until a full
> migration is completed.

So we _will_ lose proper access to KDE's release history. That's not good. 
Pages like  https://www.kde.org/announcements/ and everything it links to 
should be kept up in eternity.

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Boudewijn Rempt | https://www.valdyas.org | https://www.krita.org





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