Redirects for to-be-shutdown-finally extragear.kde.org (was: Re: [Kde-extra-gear] This list and associated website will be ending in one week)

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Hi,

good to see things slowly moving forwards :) Not there yet, but getting 
closer.

See below for current state:

Am Freitag, 22. Januar 2016, 20:44:56 schrieb Friedrich W. H. Kossebau:
> Am Mittwoch, 20. Januar 2016, 11:19:31 schrieb Jeremy Whiting:
> > Friedrich,
> > 
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
> > 
> > <kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > let's get this one finished.
> > > 
> > > Am Montag, 31. August 2015, 20:09:39 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> > >> El Dilluns, 31 d'agost de 2015, a les 14:10:05, Helio Chissini de
> > >> Castro
> > >> va
> > >> 
> > >> escriure:
> > >> > Hello everyone.
> > >> > 
> > >> > This list made his job from years, but now is time to let it go and
> > >> > assume
> > >> > this is a thing from the past. As same the aged website.
> > >> 
> > >> I'm concerned about the website going away, yes it is *old* but there
> > >> are
> > >> links going to it and there's visits as piwik shows, what are we going
> > >> to
> > >> do with it? totally kill it? I think we should make some redirects to
> > >> places that make sense at least for app pages
> > > 
> > > Redirects could be done to the respective app pages below
> > > https://www.kde.org/applications/
> > > which are having similar info.
> > > 
> > > Not sure all apps have pages there already (e.g. KXStitch is to be found
> > > where? is not in /applications/graphics/ at least), so would be also
> > > good
> > > to fix that while doing so.
> > > 
> > > Anyone quick up to do that, first
> > > a) add missing pages to kde.org/applications, then
> > > b) adding redirects?
> > 
> > I can do a and b if you like,
> 
> That would be great.
> 
> > do we have a list of which applications
> > need redirects and to be added? I didn't see kxstitch on www.kde.org,
> > but it is on userbase at https://userbase.kde.org/KXStitch . the
> > contents of www.kde.org/applications are generated by the .json files
> > here I believe:
> > https://websvn.kde.org/trunk/www/sites/www/applications/apps/
> 
> Mh, after all the years of git I now fail to checkout a subversion repo. Or
> is it due to svn+ssh:// not enabled (or not for anyone)?
> 
> Most items on the extragear website seem to have proper replacement on
> kde.org/applications/.
> A few have not, but they could be added as first step:
> KXStitch, SymbolEditor, Kst
> 
> Others seem mo longer maintained/developed, should their homepages just be
> dropped completely? Who might be interested in this ancient information?
> 
> Kipi is a challenge, it is a framework with plugins and not an application.
> So where can it have its mini-homepage on kde.org?
> And same challenge are possibly the Kopete plugins, but they might be
> outdated now.

So thanks to Steve & Elvis who added entries to kde.org/applications and the 
Kopete plugin developers replying to my private emails, we can now tag these 
as solved for preparing redirects:

KXStitch: now has entry on kde.org/applications/graphics/kxstitch
SymbolEditor: now has entry on kde.org/applications/graphics/symboleditor/
Kronometer: now has kde.org/applications/utilities/kronometer

Kopete Bonjour: merged into kopete "many years ago", so redirect to 
kde.org/applications/internet/kopete/
Kopete Cryptography: also merged into kopete "many years ago", so redirect to 
kde.org/applications/internet/kopete/

Still leaves these two from the apparently still active projects, Kst & Kipi. 
Sending separate emails to get project maintainers feedback about 
kde.org/application entries or better places for redirects.

Would everybody agree that proper handling of the old content for no longer 
maintained apps, like KDEBluetooth, kplayer, kpovmodeler, showimg etc. is to 
simply keep the sources of extragear.kde.org in svn like they are now (which 
might be the usual handling in such cases, just making sure)?

Cheers
Friedrich