GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648355
Impossible to contribute any fixes to www.gnome.org content due to WordPress migration
Last modified: 2018-09-24 10:17:37 UTC
From bug 647052 comment 3: "The content of www.gnome.org is not stored on git. It uses WordPress tables in MySQL however. (we really should update GnomeWeb on wiki to explain those things)" This is blocking any contributions to www.gnome.org. And there's really enough open bugs.
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeWeb/GnomeDotOrgAccounts ?
So, as discussed on IRC, I think using Wordpress with accounts is way better than the old model, because the overlap between people who enjoy making website fixes, and people who love using git is really small :) I'm happy to start handling out accounts (or rather continuing handling them out) as soon as we have a rough policy in place. Started a discussion on this at gnome-web-list https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-web-list/2011-June/msg00006.html
Might be nice to hook up www.gnome.org to LDAP. So at least maintainers can automatically edit pages.
Perhaps, vdepizzol found http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-ldap-login/ If we're fine with all maintainers having access to the website (they always did in the past) then I'm all right with this.
After some discussion with Olav on IRC, I filed bug 652231 about LDAP support
2 years later, this bug is still not fixed. The website is outdated, and the translation template does not cover all strings of the website! The application section is outdated, GNOME has new applications which do not get covered at all.
(In reply to comment #6) > The website is outdated, and the translation template does not cover all > strings of the website! Which ones are missing? Is there a specific bug report about that problem? > The application section is outdated, GNOME has new applications which do not > get covered at all. Can you provide a link to the "application section" please?
Here is my bug report for the i18n missing strings: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709254 and here for the applications section: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709255
Is it not possible to add wordpress sites to git? This seems odd. If the core application can exist on https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress then it seems like a development repository could be added to git.gnome.org if security reasons make it so access/visibility must be restricted for a master to be practical. I am not sure how easy that would be to implement in practice though.
(In reply to comment #9) > Is it not possible to add wordpress sites to git? This seems odd. If the core > application can exist on https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress then it seems > like a development repository could be added to git.gnome.org if security > reasons make it so access/visibility must be restricted for a master to be > practical. I am not sure how easy that would be to implement in practice > though. This bug report is about being able to edit the website content, not about the code of the engine the website runs on.
(In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > Is it not possible to add wordpress sites to git? This seems odd. If the core > > application can exist on https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress then it seems > > like a development repository could be added to git.gnome.org if security > > reasons make it so access/visibility must be restricted for a master to be > > practical. I am not sure how easy that would be to implement in practice > > though. > > This bug report is about being able to edit the website content, not about the > code of the engine the website runs on. I am guided by the title of the bug: Impossible to contribute any fixes to www.gnome.org thanks to WordPress migration
(In reply to comment #11) > I am guided by the title of the bug: I understand how this can be misleading. The fixes in question are fixes to the content, like typos, inaccuracies, or incompleteness. You can actually see it's the case by reading the first comments. Maybe we should rephrase the bug summary? Ideas welcome.
Seems a good idea. Admittedly, as you pointed out, I am guilty of skim reading here but for searchability in bugzilla as well as skim readers :-) a more accurate heading would help.
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