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

[Elvis Angelaccio]

2016-01-20 17:36 GMT+01:00 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kossebau at kde.org>:

> 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?
>
> 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 think they are in SVN [1].
I can help with a), at least for the one app that I maintain in extragear.

Btw it looks like some of these extragear apps are really dead, for
instance showimg [2] does not even have a git repo.

[1]: https://websvn.kde.org/trunk/www/sites/www/applications
[2]: https://extragear.kde.org/apps/showimg/


>
> > > 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
>

Cheers,
Elvis


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