[discussion] archiving and retiring the Dot

[Kenny Duffus]

On Monday, 2 October 2023 12:28:25 BST Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> at the recent Promo Sprint we addressed the topic of Promo blogging and 
> the Dot. The topic was brought up in the context of other discussions 
> about blogging at KDE (see [1]). One observation was that the 
> communication needs the Dot addresses are being fulfilled elsewhere. For 
> instance:
> 
>   * Software releases are posted to the announcements page: 
> https://kde.org/announcements/
> 
>   * e.V. news is posted at the e.V. page: https://ev.kde.org/news/

I am unlikely to be the only one that doesn't regularly check those places

>   * Many teams have their own blogs (https://eco.kde.org/blog/, 
> https://gcompris.net/news-en.html, etc.)
> 
>   * Akademy updates are posted at the Akademy page: https://akademy.kde.org/
> 

That is not correct, Akademy makes a huge use of the dot for sharing info to the wider community

You can see this by looking at the articles on https://dot.kde.org/ 

> Posts to the above blogs also appear on Planet KDE. Moreover, Promo 
> announces all news related to the above topics on social media as well.
> 
> In this context, a radical idea came up: perhaps we can archive and 
> retire the Dot altogether.
> 
> What does the commmunity think about this proposal?
> 
> Archiving and retiring the Dot will solve the problem of migrating it, 
> as it does not get migrated at all, just archived. It helps followers of 
> KDE news discriminate more easily between what they want to read about 
> and what not. And for followers who want to read everything there's 
> always the Planet.
> 
> Additionally, retiring the Dot would help streamline our communication 
> and the work that goes into maintaining it, also in terms of 
> infrastructure. Any blog posts outside of the above topics but related 
> to Promo could be published on the personal sites of the Promo team 
> (perhaps hosted at the revised blogs.kde.org site [1]) and aggregated on 
> Planet.
> 
> What does the community think of this idea? Do you support it? Oppose it?

I think its a terrible idea

KDE needs somewhere for official news, having that just mixed in with blog posts would make them much harder to find and be drowned out in noise

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	Kenny (he/him)