Work on the new kde.org website

[Ken Vermette]

I'll be sharing my initial work on the theme this around the weekend/Monday
morning. Saturday I intend to slip into a coma.

On the announcements format changing, that was something we discussed. I do
believe going forward we will be announcements through the Drupal
interface; it's quite nice, and we can customise it according to the needs
of announcements and do various interesting things. We can also take any
ideas on things we want to standardize, such as the change list, as we can
include that in announcement post type.

The only downside is the old announcements. We'll need to put them in some
kind of archive, which is less than optimal, and won't be searchable.

For translations I'm not 100% sure how that will be done. Drupal already
has translation features that seem very good, but it doesn't look good for
the SVN based workflow. There was discussion around it, and translators
will probably need to adjust our apply their expertise to non-Drupal pages
which are still in need of work.

We would likely lose a few translators, but at the same time we open up the
ability for more people to provide translations as the Drupal method is
much easier to learn than SVN, and I'm sure there are probably more
translators out there willing to use the web-based interface.

On an aside, there's lots of accessibility and internationalisation stuff
from my cursory investigation, which is very, very good.

On Sep 8, 2016 8:41 PM, "Frédéric Sheedy" <sheedf at gmail.com> wrote:

> This a great news!
> If you contribute on a git repo, I will be able to do some small
> contribution.
> Please, post when new git repo will be available.
>
> Fred
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Olivier Churlaud <olivier at churlaud.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> At Akademy we took some decisions about the new website. We played a lot
>> around Drupal and decided it was the good solution.
>>
>> I summarized the discussion and the plan on
>> https://community.kde.org/KDE.org/New_Site
>> I won't repeat to many things that are already on this wiki page but
>> basically the keywords are:
>>
>> * drupal
>> * theme from neon.kde.org
>> * quick
>>
>> I would like to know if Ingo and and Minh can work on a neverland theme?
>> Ken is working on doing a plain Drupal theme because he thinks it's
>> faster. But Ben really expects that Neverland get used at some point.
>>
>> Also, as I wrote in a private message, I would really like that your
>> progressions are somewhere on quickgit so that other people can follow
>> or help if they want. It was something that was reproached before about
>> the precedent site design effort. So even if it's small changes, or that
>> it doesn't have visible results, commit and let people see it.
>>
>> Finally, don't be shy, if you have great ideas to get things done, say it
>> :D
>>
>> Thank you, and cheers!
>> Olivier
>>
>> --
>> Olivier CHURLAUD
>> Engineer Student at Ecole Centrale de Lyon
>> in Dual Degree at TU Berlin, M.Sc. Elektrotechnik
>> @: olivier at churlaud.com
>> tel: +49 (0)1575-2931348
>> in:  http://linkedin.com/in/olivierchurlaud
>> web: http://olivier.churlaud.com
>>
>>
>
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