de.kde.org outdated (with the wrong KDE definition)

Frederik Schwarzer schwarzer at kde.org
Sun Jul 2 11:21:49 UTC 2017


On Sonntag, 2. Juli 2017 12:52:02 CEST Luigi Toscano wrote:
> Albert Astals Cid ha scritto:
> > El dijous, 29 de juny de 2017, a les 10:48:23 CEST, Frederik Schwarzer va
> > 
> > escriure:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I guess I was the last one working on it back then to fix a lot of
> >> issues. The problem was that kde.de was running its own environment and
> >> pulled the SVN website contents to show them to the visitor. That
> >> process broke quite often. Back then I talked to the ownder of kde.de
> >> about the issue but he did not see any problems with the processes. At
> >> the same time, kde.org switched to ... Drupal, I think, and it was said
> >> that now the website would be translated directly in the CMS, so
> >> de.kde.org would be taken down ... That's two reasons I stopped putting
> >> effort into that website. After that I started working so I lost sight
> >> of these things and never checked what actually happened.
> >> 
> >>  From my point of view, it can be taken down completely. It is only
> >> 
> >> working partially and what remains working, is outdated.
> >> 
> >> So, I vote for flipping the big switch and saying good bye to the old
> >> website.
> > 
> > Just make it redirect to kde.org for now and if someone complains they can
> > find a better way so that we don't end up with very outdated content.
> > 
> > Can someone open a request against sysadmin?
> 
> Sysadmin ticket created, thanks all for the input and the background.

You beat me to that. ;)
Just another tiny bit of info: kde.de (which is not in the hands of the KDE 
e.V.) already points to kde.org. No idea when that switch was done, but it is 
expected that mode visitors will not see any difference due to the current 
switch.

Cheers,
Frederik


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