Sysadmin Load Reduction: Project Specific Sites

[Thomas Friedrichsmeier]

Hi!

On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:32:16 +0000
Carl Schwan <carl at carlschwan.eu> wrote:
> I now created a repository[1] with the content automatically
> extracted from mediawiki with a script. The extracted result is very
> bad but I started cleaning it see commit[2]. This need to be moved to
> the website git namespace, but until this is done I granted every KDE
> developer push access. I would be very grateful if some other peoples
> could help clean some generated pages (you only need knowledge in
> markdown) for inspiration you can look at [2]

Thanks for that! This does sound like a very workable solution. Two
questions:

1) What will be the procedure for updating the website, once ready?
Pushing to a specific git repo, AFAIU, but who exactly will have push
access, and can we - as project maintainers - grant push access to
additional KDE developers who would like to contribute to our pages?

2) Can I preview the converted page live? That would make it easier to
scan for cases of bad conversion.

> And it would be nice if the rkward devs could provide a new version
> of https://rkward.kde.org/File:RKWard_060_450.png (using breeze theme
> and icons and not from 2012).
> 
> Let's try to update this website very soon since the mediawiki
> version is still 1.19 (EOL 2015)

Will do my best (which may not be much, though).

Regards
Thomas

> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Carl Schwan
> https://carlschwan.eu
> 
> [1]: https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/rkward-kde-org
> [2]:
> https://invent.kde.org/carlschwan/rkward-kde-org/commit/f4a1ee44cf0d753c41cdf6cfc8a87ae6cee7fcae
> 
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7:27 PM, Ben Cooksley
> <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 4:10 AM Thomas Friedrichsmeier
> > thomas.friedrichsmeier at ruhr-uni-bochum.de wrote:
> >   
> 
> > > Hi Ben,  
> >   
> 
> > Hi Thomas,
> >   
> 
> > > On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 12:50:07 +1300
> > > Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org wrote:
> > >   
> 
> > > > -   RKWard (rkward.kde.org): This site is currently based on
> > > > Mediawiki, which is substantially more difficult to maintain
> > > > and keep updated compared to a site built using Hugo, Jekyll,
> > > > Wordpress or Drupal. 
> 
> > > >   
> 
> > > > Given that the site was last updated back in early 2018, i'd
> > > > like to make this static, and should updates need to be made in
> > > > the future the content can then be converted at that time into
> > > > something more easy to maintain.  
> > >   
> 
> > > please not static. I know we have not been active of late, but it
> > > totally won't help, if we need to climb a hill of administrative
> > > tasks, before we can even get starting thinking about making a
> > > new release. Frankly, we did not come to KDE back in the day in
> > > order to increase our administrative overhead...
> > > We're really open to solutions of all kinds. Twice sysadmin had
> > > proposed to somehow unify the rkward mediawiki installation with
> > > the techbase and userbase installation. We gave green light on
> > > both occasions, but nothing happened after that.  
> >   
> 
> > Apologies for that - in each instance the person who was going to
> > work on it disappeared.
> >   
> 
> > > I wouldn't mind any other hosting solution, really, it doesn't
> > > have to be wiki-based. Provided that we can have a - relatively -
> > > smooth migration path, and that we don't have to switch to
> > > something new yet again, in two or three years.  
> >   
> 
> > Would something based on Markdown be sufficient for this?
> > There appear to be Mediawiki -> Markdown converters out there we can
> > use which will get us 95% of the way there.
> >   
> 
> > > Regards
> > > Thomas  
> >   
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Ben  
> 

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