Refactoring kubuntu. org

[Mike Mikowski]

Hi Valorie and Rick:

The Kubuntu Focus Team agree with this direction!

Cheers, Mike

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020, 17:45 Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 12:50 AM Rick Timmis <ricktimmis68 at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone.
>>
>> I have a proposal to address our out of date WordPress website and its
>> infrastructure. Building a dynamically generated site makes maintenance and
>> administration an important task, and keeping everything secure even more
>> so.
>>
>> Further, making contributions as easy as possible for our community would
>> help with engagement. Of course we need to do that in a managed way to
>> ensure that we get excellent, and relevant content on our website.
>>
>> My proposal is to reimplement kubunbtu.org using the Hugo static site
>> generator. This would enable content of the site to be managed via KDE's
>> GitLab instance, or Launchpad. All content is stored as Markdown .MD files,
>> with all images stored in an /images directory and all the sources stored
>> in Git, or Bzr respectively.
>>
>
> Cool. KDE is moving this way already. You might want to hang out in
> #kde-www and chat with the web devels there about your plan.
>
> Content updates then become simple merge requests, and if we chose KDE's
>> GitLab instance then updates can even be made directly within GitLab using
>> the WebIDE.
>>
>
> Unsure whether or not we should use KDE's gitlab or just use our own?
>
> The website would be built by the Hugo generator and deployed to
>> production, based upon merge triggers on the Master branch, perhaps hooked
>> into our CI systems as a Jenkins build job.
>>
>> I'd probably need some support and input in regard to UX and Graphic
>> design, but the technical stuff I can take care of.
>>
>> Let me know your thoughts ?
>>
>> Do you like this idea ?
>>
>>
>> Best Wishes
>>
>> Rick Timmis
>> Kubuntu Council
>>
>
> Thanks for stepping up!
>
> Valorie
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