Ready to delete quality.kde.org, admin help needed

[Will Entriken]

Hello all,

I have taken all efforts to move relevant quality.kde.org content to
more active places and am requesting consensus and assistance to
remove the site. This message shows how the content will be preserved,
recommendations on how to proceed and what administrative help I need.

I have moved Quality content regarding programming and promotion to
http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/ which I have been
maintaining for 3 years. Today I have confirmed that all content on
Quality is available from other sources, some of which I
created/updated today (indicated by *, and will be live when the
webserver catches up to SVN):

* http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/documentation/
* http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/testing/
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Sources/Anonymous_SVN
* http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/The_Power_Of_The_Doer

The http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/The_Power_Of_The_Doer page above
has no inbound links. If there is interest in bringing this content
(originally by cwoelz, according to SVN) to official status, that is a
separate process.

Attached is a candidate to replace the front page of Quality and
remove all other pages. Even better would be to 301 the whole site to
http://www.kde.org or http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/. Is
there any objection to doing either of these? If not, is there someone
who can help me implement the 301?

Thank you,
Will Entriken

P.S. If you believe it would make sense to put some of this into
community.kde.org, please give me some specifics hints on what to do.




On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:04 AM, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, June 28, 2010 11:26:00 pm Will Entriken wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 7, 2007 at 2:32 PM, Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
>> > On Sunday 07 January 2007 19:02, Will Entriken wrote:
>> >> I am trying to contact the Webmaster of quality.kde.org (via the link
>> >> on the bottom of every quality page), but email to
>> >> carloswoelz at imap-mail.com is bouncing. Is this the case for anyone
>> >> else? Is there another email address to put up there?
>> >
>> > As far as I know Carlos has vanished from the face of the earth. It's
>> > unfortunate, he was very passionate about KDE quality, but ran into some
>> > personal time issues that dragged him away from KDE.
>
>
> This is true.
>
> You might put kde-quality (the list) as the contact person on those web pages,
> but basically the whole idea of kde-quality as a forum for new contributors to
> make a small mark and to do the last-mile polishing that KDE needs .. that
> idea failed. It's been partly taken over by distro's and the KDE forum, which
> works well now (it didn't when KDE-quality was set up).
>
> For the past three years, I think, kde-quality (the list) has been used more
> for the tools KDE uses for quality control (e.g. the EBN) and sporadic bug
> reports than anything else.
>
> I'd be ok to kill both the list and the site, since they're historical
> artifacts.
>
>> >
>> >> Anyway, my business is that I am maintaining
>> >> http://kde.org/getinvolved/. I am trying to consolidate information
>> >> into this page from all over KDE and I would like to work with whoever
>> >> maintains http://quality.kde.org/develop/howto/howtohack.php in an
>> >> effort to avoid duplication and increase quality and timeliness of
>> >> information.
>> >
>> > SVN log for any information. I'd really like to kill the quality.k.o site
>> > and list myself.
>> >
>> > --
>> > KDE Quality Team  http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/
>> > GPG: FEA2 A3FE    http://people.fruitsalad.org/adridg/
>>
>> The quality site has been unchanged in 2 years:
>> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/quality/website/
>>
>> Can we safely remove this now?
>
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<p>The KDE Quality Team was a coordinated group of user interface testers that brought together disciplines in documentation, filing bugs, and following use cases. Currently, there is no unified team completing this effort. If you are interested in this type of contribution to KDE, please read more at the following locations:</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/testing/">http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/testing/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/documentation/">http://www.kde.org/community/getinvolved/documentation/</a></li>
<li><a href="http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad">http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad</a></li>
</ul>