Drupal sites within KDE

[Paul Brown]

On Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:55:02 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As mentioned in an earlier email, I was going to look at connecting our
> Drupal sites to make use of Invent for authentication.
> While at initial glance a plugin to handle this did appear to exist, upon
> implementation it became apparent that this plugin would not be up to the
> task unfortunately - and no other plugin exists.
> 
> This also brings up another issue as with one exception all of our Drupal
> sites run Drupal 7 which is now reaching the end of it's life, and most
> extensions are only being maintained for security fixes now.
> My understanding is that Drupal upstream intend to properly pull the plug
> on Drupal 7 sooner rather than later.
> 
> We currently have the following sites on Drupal 7:
> - dot.kde.org
> - akademy.kde.org (and akademy-dev.kde.org)
> - amarok.kde.org
> - blogs.kde.org
> - kde.in
> - kde.nl
> - qtcon.org
> - skrooge.org
> - behindkde.org
> 
> Given the age of the content on those sites, i'd like to suggest that we:
> a) Archive kde.nl and kde.in and redirect them both to KDE.org
> b) Turn QtCon.org into a static site
> c) For BehindKDE.org, Skrooge.org and amarok.kde.org look into converting
> them into Hugo based sites, but if that is not possible convert them into
> static sites as well.
> 
> That will leave just blogs.kde.org, akademy.kde.org and dot.kde.org to
> contend with.
> 
> Having looked into the process to perform a migration to a modern version
> of Drupal, it does not look pretty at all. See
> https://www.drupal.org/docs/upgrading-drupal/upgrading-from-drupal-6-or-7-to
> -drupal-9-or-later We should therefore assess whether it is prudent to
> continue to make use of Drupal, especially given the numerous security
> issues it has had and the poor upgrade path it tends to offer (Drupal 6 to
> 7 was not the nicest upgrade either if memory serves)
> 
> Wordpress by contrast hasn't had major incidents in the past few years, and
> offers a rolling update model (the sites using it are running the most
> current release and have smoothly transitioned to it as time has gone on
> with no issues)
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben

We have talked long about moving dot to something else, and most votes go to 
Hugo (although for blog-like content, I would personally prefer WordPress).  
Maybe this would be the time to start considering this.

Cheers

Paul
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