On Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:55:02 CEST Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > As mentioned in an earlier email, I was going to look at connecting our > Drupal sites to make use of Invent for authentication. > While at initial glance a plugin to handle this did appear to exist, upon > implementation it became apparent that this plugin would not be up to the > task unfortunately - and no other plugin exists. > > This also brings up another issue as with one exception all of our Drupal > sites run Drupal 7 which is now reaching the end of it's life, and most > extensions are only being maintained for security fixes now. > My understanding is that Drupal upstream intend to properly pull the plug > on Drupal 7 sooner rather than later. > > We currently have the following sites on Drupal 7: > - dot.kde.org > - akademy.kde.org (and akademy-dev.kde.org) > - amarok.kde.org > - blogs.kde.org > - kde.in > - kde.nl > - qtcon.org > - skrooge.org > - behindkde.org > > Given the age of the content on those sites, i'd like to suggest that we: > a) Archive kde.nl and kde.in and redirect them both to KDE.org > b) Turn QtCon.org into a static site > c) For BehindKDE.org, Skrooge.org and amarok.kde.org look into converting > them into Hugo based sites, but if that is not possible convert them into > static sites as well. > > That will leave just blogs.kde.org, akademy.kde.org and dot.kde.org to > contend with. > > Having looked into the process to perform a migration to a modern version > of Drupal, it does not look pretty at all. See > https://www.drupal.org/docs/upgrading-drupal/upgrading-from-drupal-6-or-7-to > -drupal-9-or-later We should therefore assess whether it is prudent to > continue to make use of Drupal, especially given the numerous security > issues it has had and the poor upgrade path it tends to offer (Drupal 6 to > 7 was not the nicest upgrade either if memory serves) > > Wordpress by contrast hasn't had major incidents in the past few years, and > offers a rolling update model (the sites using it are running the most > current release and have smoothly transitioned to it as time has gone on > with no issues) > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Ben
We have talked long about moving dot to something else, and most votes go to Hugo (although for blog-like content, I would personally prefer WordPress). Maybe this would be the time to start considering this. Cheers Paul -- Promotion & Communication www: http://kde.org Mastodon: https://mastodon.technology/@kde Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kde/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kde