Retirement of Capacity

A. Bikadorov alex.bikadorov at kdemail.net
Mon Jan 16 17:57:53 GMT 2023


On 15.01.23 07:36, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Since time immemorial, KDE has had a custom PHP framework known as Capacity which we've 
> used to build a good number of our websites.
> 
> With the rise of Static Site Generators such as Jekyll and Hugo though, we've been phasing 
> this out and given that Hugo especially is now well established as the go-to-tooling for 
> building KDE websites, it is time we retire Capacity.
> 
> In addition, in the next few weeks the current server for our static/capacity sites, 
> Nicoda, will be replaced by a new system (Tyran) that is currently awaiting configuration 
> and i'd very much prefer to not have to deploy legacy Capacity support there.
> 
> I have checked our server configuration this evening and it looks like the following sites 
> still rely on Capacity in some form or another:
> 
> konversation.kde.org <http://konversation.kde.org>
> pe.kde.org <http://pe.kde.org>
> marble.kde.org <http://marble.kde.org>
> kmplayer.kde.org <http://kmplayer.kde.org>
> www.kde.org <http://www.kde.org>
> games.kde.org <http://games.kde.org>
> docs.kde.org <http://docs.kde.org>
> czechia.kde.org <http://czechia.kde.org>
> freebsd.kde.org <http://freebsd.kde.org>
> kmymoney.org <http://kmymoney.org>
> edu.kde.org <http://edu.kde.org>
> multimedia.kde.org <http://multimedia.kde.org>
> ro.kde.org <http://ro.kde.org>
> konqueror.org <http://konqueror.org>
> kpdf.kde.org <http://kpdf.kde.org>
> jp.kde.org <http://jp.kde.org>
> utils.kde.org <http://utils.kde.org>
> events.kde.org <http://events.kde.org>
> kst-plot.kde.org <http://kst-plot.kde.org>
> conference2004.kde.org <http://conference2004.kde.org>
> conference2005.kde.org <http://conference2005.kde.org>
> akademy2006.kde.org <http://akademy2006.kde.org>
> akademy2007.kde.org <http://akademy2007.kde.org>
> akademy2008.kde.org <http://akademy2008.kde.org>
> akademy2009.kde.org <http://akademy2009.kde.org>
> www-staging.kde.org <http://www-staging.kde.org>
> il.kde.org <http://il.kde.org>
> umbrello.kde.org <http://umbrello.kde.org>
> krusader.org <http://krusader.org>
> ev.kde.org <http://ev.kde.org>
> okular.kde.org <http://okular.kde.org>
> kdemail.net <http://kdemail.net>
> extragear.kde.org <http://extragear.kde.org>
> lakademy.kde.org <http://lakademy.kde.org>
> kphotoalbum.org <http://kphotoalbum.org>
> 
> Having a quick look through the repositories/sites, I see:
> - Some that have already made the jump to Hugo/Jekyll (so likely just need their Capacity 
> support switched off)
> - Some that are just redirects to apps.kde.org <http://apps.kde.org> or elsewhere, and 
> therefore just need Capacity support switched off (and probably the repository archived on 
> invent.kde.org <http://invent.kde.org> too)
> - Others where the site content is still in Subversion and the site talks about Maemo (eek!)
> - Others where the site content is many years out of date and it is probably best we just 
> redirect it to www.kde.org <http://www.kde.org> / apps.kde.org <http://apps.kde.org>.
> 
> It would be appreciated if people could please take a look through these sites.
> 
> For the akademy2xxx.kde.org <http://akademy2xxx.kde.org> sites, it would be nice if we 
> could get their content migrated and incorporated into the new Hugo based akademy.kde.org 
> <http://akademy.kde.org> site, but in the absence of that I will be turning them into 
> static sites
> 
> Many thanks,
> Ben

Hi Ben,

krusader.org is just a bunch of static files and does not use any framework. Everything is 
also in Git -> https://invent.kde.org/websites/krusader-org

Cheers
Alex
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