Hi All, Plans to recreate the current OSGeo.org website in a newer version of the Drupal content management system are on the wiki here:
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo.org_Web_Site_-_2016_Barn_Raising This topic is also on the agenda for this week's OSGeo board meeting (Thursday): agenda: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10 time: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2015&month=12&day=10&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2015.00UTC Please send replies to the message to *discuss**@lists.osgeo.org <http://lists.osgeo.org>* and not to the other lists included on this message to prevent the discussion from being split across the discuss, board, sac and webcom lists! Many thanks, Ian P.S. I anticipate that we may not all agree that a manual migration to Drupal 8 is the absolute optimal solution --- but please bear in mind that possible upgrades have been in discussion since 2007... We're looking for a solution that can be easily implemented and meets the main requirements (including removing ad hoc custom PHP and also ensuring solid multilingual support). On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com > wrote: > Hi Ian, > > Thanks for proposing this. I agree, we need a "not invented here" > approach, to make this possible. It is sure time for this upgrade. I > have added your proposal to the next board meeting agenda, Ian could you > also attend that IRC meeting, to help guide this topic? See the exact > time at the top of this page: > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-12-10 > > I would also like to see this plan (including the nodes transferred) on > the OSGeo wiki. Could you also start drafting these plans on the OSGeo > wiki, and share that link with everyone? > > One big part of this upgrade is the Service Providers page > (http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile), which I believe is made up on > custom PHP. Please include your plans for this in the wiki (or a section > on the wiki for this so we can get proposals/ideas for how to improve this > search tool. > > We will of course need to work closely with the SAC committee on this, and > we can share these wiki plans with them, for their approval. > > Thanks again for pushing this. > > -jeff > > > > Hi All, > > > > With the recent release of Drupal 8, I'd like to suggest we hold a barn > > raising event for recreating and re-hosting the main osgeo.org website. > > > > Why continue with Drupal? > > > > - We need a proven CMS that is easy for all users and doesn't require > lots > > of work to maintain. > > -Drupal 8 was developed to put multilingual capabilities first, a core > > requirement for OSGeo. > > - v8 includes responsive themes designed for mobiles and tablets and is > > engineered to be fast by default. > > - Unlike the OSGeo projects, we need a "not invented here" approach to > the > > website where we aim to write little or no code ourselves. > > > > How? > > > > - The current site has around 1600 nodes. If, for example, 16 people > took > > responsibility for 100 nodes each we could manually copy content without > > worrying about automating the migration... therefore no risk of > > transferring anything that's not public, or of copying across old > embedded > > PHP code. > > - A shared google spreadsheet would record which nodes had been > > transferred. We'd transfer newer nodes first and *create the correct > links > > among the translated content*. > > - The sponsor pages could be created as a custom content type and > > displayed > > using built-in drupal views, allowing sorting, searching etc without any > > custom PHP. > > - SAC could install a vanilla Drupal 8 on a new server and get inital > LDAP > > support working. Webcom would take responsibility for content, theming > > etc. > > and discussions via the webcom mailing list. > > - The board would decide when to transfer to new site. > > > > Principals > > - Avoid writing any custom code (which has prevented upgrades in the > past) > > - Install minimal contributor modules, ensure any that are used are > likely > > to be maintained long term, e.g. ldap > > <https://www.drupal.org/project/ldap> > > module. > > > > Is this something that could be discussed at the next board meeting? > > > > Ian > > > > P.S. The following link provides a good summary of features in Drupal 8: > > > > > https://www.acquia.com/sites/default/files/library/attachment/ultimate-guide-drupal-8v3.pdf > > > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > bo...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
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