Retirement of Capacity

[Albert Astals Cid]

El diumenge, 15 de gener de 2023, a les 7:36:03 (CET), Ben Cooksley va 
escriure:
> Hi all,
> 
> Since time immemorial, KDE has had a custom PHP framework known as Capacity
> which we've used to build a good number of our websites.
> 
> With the rise of Static Site Generators such as Jekyll and Hugo though,
> we've been phasing this out and given that Hugo especially is now well
> established as the go-to-tooling for building KDE websites

> it is time we retire Capacity.

Why? The code is there and it works. It seems we're giving ourselves lots of 
work for what is really just a "few" lines of PHP.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> In addition, in the next few weeks the current server for our
> static/capacity sites, Nicoda, will be replaced by a new system (Tyran)
> that is currently awaiting configuration and i'd very much prefer to not
> have to deploy legacy Capacity support there.
> 
> I have checked our server configuration this evening and it looks like the
> following sites still rely on Capacity in some form or another:
> 
> konversation.kde.org
> pe.kde.org
> marble.kde.org
> kmplayer.kde.org
> www.kde.org
> games.kde.org
> docs.kde.org
> czechia.kde.org
> freebsd.kde.org
> kmymoney.org
> edu.kde.org
> multimedia.kde.org
> ro.kde.org
> konqueror.org
> kpdf.kde.org
> jp.kde.org
> utils.kde.org
> events.kde.org
> kst-plot.kde.org
> conference2004.kde.org
> conference2005.kde.org
> akademy2006.kde.org
> akademy2007.kde.org
> akademy2008.kde.org
> akademy2009.kde.org
> www-staging.kde.org
> il.kde.org
> umbrello.kde.org
> krusader.org
> ev.kde.org
> okular.kde.org
> kdemail.net
> extragear.kde.org
> lakademy.kde.org
> kphotoalbum.org
> 
> Having a quick look through the repositories/sites, I see:
> - Some that have already made the jump to Hugo/Jekyll (so likely just need
> their Capacity support switched off)
> - Some that are just redirects to apps.kde.org or elsewhere, and therefore
> just need Capacity support switched off (and probably the repository
> archived on invent.kde.org too)
> - Others where the site content is still in Subversion and the site talks
> about Maemo (eek!)
> - Others where the site content is many years out of date and it is
> probably best we just redirect it to www.kde.org / apps.kde.org.
> 
> It would be appreciated if people could please take a look through these
> sites.
> 
> For the akademy2xxx.kde.org sites, it would be nice if we could get their
> content migrated and incorporated into the new Hugo based akademy.kde.org
> site, but in the absence of that I will be turning them into static sites
> 
> Many thanks,
> Ben