[Kde-extra-gear] This list and associated website will be ending in one week

[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, 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/
>
> If noone is up for a), I might give it a go. Needs someone to tell me where to
> find the kde.org/applications sources.
>
>> > I'll like to ask everyone that used and uses this list and website for
>> > software announces, there's several other kde lists, but in general,
>> > Planet
>> > KDE is a welcome place to do this.
>>
>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce-apps is particularly
>> interesting in that regard.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>>
>> > This decision was made due the lack of proper reasoning answers, and first
>> > inquiry to remove it was more than year ago, so, enough time to see if we
>> > should keep or not, so the answer was not.
>> >
>> > Regards, Helio
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich

BR,
Jeremy

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