Retirement of Capacity

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 7:54 PM Jumpei Ogawa <phanective at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> jp.kde.org is already replaced with Jekyll and it no longer depend on
> Capacity.
>

Thanks for advising Jumpei, i've now removed the Capacity support from
jp.kde.org.


>
> Best regards,
> Jumpei
>

Thanks,
Ben


>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2023, 15:37 Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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 - Others where the site content is many years out of date and it is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
>>
>
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