[Kde-extra-gear] Shutting down extragear.kde.org, time for setting up redirects

[Jeremy Whiting]

I can request the redirects if you like. No problem. I'll just
copy/paste the list into a sysadmin ticket. If you want to that's fine
too.

BR,
Jeremy

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
<kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sloooowly moving, but here we are now with a complete list of redirect
> proposals, so people following old links to extragear.kde.org will not end up
> with unknown domain name or 404.
>
> As before I propose to only do full redirects for pages of apps which are
> still developed. And have any other links just silently be redirected to
> kde.org/applications/.
> ((I personally think in a perfect world we also properly document phased out
> KDE software, so people can learn about the state instead of having to guess
> it is dead and gone. But we do not have a standard way yet, so creating a
> random graveyard here will not help maintenance.))
>
> @Jeremy, in January you said you might be able to care for the redirects, are
> you still up for that?
> Who else might be able to do that?
>
> Find below the list of proposed redirects.
> Please also check if I missed anything from the current extragear.kde.org
> website that would better also get a redirect.
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
>
>
> extragear.kde.org redirects in general:
>
> / -> https://www.kde.org/applications/
> home/*  -> https://www.kde.org/applications/
>
> apps/$name -> https://www.kde.org/applications/$category/$name
>
> Per app, following the list on the mainpage:
>
> Addon
> =====
> Kopete Skype -> no longer developed, as noted on its page
>
> Graphics
> ========
> KColorEdit -> https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kcoloredit/
> KGraphViewer -> https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kgraphviewer/
> KPhotoAlbum -> https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kphotoalbum/
> digiKam -> https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/digikam/
>
> KXStitch -> https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/kxstitch
> SymbolEditor -> https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/symboleditor
> Kipi -> plugins, do not have own page.
>         most related: https://www.kde.org/applications/graphics/digikam/
>
> DigikamImagePlugins -> became kipi, see above
> KolorManager -> dead link on extragear.kde.org itself
> kpovmodeler -> seems no longer developed
> showimg -> seems dead
>
> Multimedia
> ==========
> Amarok -> https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/amarok/
> K3b -> https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/k3b/
> Kaffeine -> https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/kaffeine/
> kmplayer -> https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/kmplayer/
>
> kplayer ->  seems no longer developed
>
> Network
> =======
> KFTPGrabber -> https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kftpgrabber/
> KMldonkey -> https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kmldonkey/
> KTorrent -> https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/ktorrent/
> Konversation -> https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/konversation/
> knemo -> https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/knemo/
>
> Kopete Bonjour -> merged into kopete "many years ago"
>                   https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kopete/
> Kopete Cryptography -> merged into kopete "many years ago"
>                        https://www.kde.org/applications/internet/kopete/
> KDEBluetooth -> seems kde4-only
>
> Office
> ======
> KEuroCalc -> https://www.kde.org/applications/office/keurocalc/
> Skrooge -> https://www.kde.org/applications/office/skrooge/
> Tellico -> https://www.kde.org/applications/office/tellico/
> kile -> https://www.kde.org/applications/office/kile/
>
> Science
> =======
> Kst -> https://www.kde.org/applications/education/kst/
>
> System
> ======
> KDE Partition Manager ->
> https://www.kde.org/applications/system/kdepartitionmanager/
>
> Utility
> =======
> Kiosktool -> https://www.kde.org/applications/system/kioskadmintool/
> Krecipes -> https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/krecipes/
> Krusader -> https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/krusader/
> Yakuake -> https://www.kde.org/applications/system/yakuake/
>
> kdiff3 -> https://www.kde.org/applications/development/kdiff3/
>
> KConfigEditor -> seems no longer developed
> Kronometer -> https://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kronometer/
>