[SAC] follow up with SAC on website maintenance

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jody, Martin,

I'd like to help getting setup on the new Drupal.  I'll file a ticket 
now to at least ask for that new machine with new Drupal, and interested 
people can help out.  Once we get that set up I'll send invites for help 
to Discuss and the Marketing Committee; is this a good plan of attack?

(indeed a refreshed Service Providers tool will be done through 
teamwork, and will be a great addition for the foundation)

-jeff



On 2016-10-16 11:24 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Personally I like the idea, however ... the website content is in many
> cases very dated. As an alternative (if you were setting up a new
> machine) interested parties (more likely a work party then just the
> marketing committee) may be interested in a fresh start
> (migrating/updating content to a new server).
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 10 October 2016 at 09:03, Martin Spott <Martin.Spott at mgras.net
> <mailto:Martin.Spott at mgras.net>> wrote:
>
>     Jody Garnett wrote:
>
>     > For example if an update is worthwhile (suppose it is eventually) would SAC
>     > be willing to put up a RFP (to cover the issues you raised above?) or is
>     > the kind of thing you would like the board to do?
>
>     Some time ago I've been dealing with upgrading parts of the Drupal
>     instance and I managed to circumvent what I considered being all the
>     relevant issues - until people complained about the missing service
>     provider directory  :-)
>
>     The site still runs Drupal5 on PHP 5.2, current version is Drupal8.
>     There *is* a migration path but it'll most certainly drop some pieces
>     of the site here and there.  I'd offer to perform migration of the
>     core, most of our website and fix as many issues as possible, but I'm
>     unable to care about every little detail - because I'm no Drupal expert
>     and my time doesn't permit reaching that level.
>
>     We could set up the new site on a different machine and find someone
>     who'd be willing to walk the old and the new site and note the
>     differences.  This would match website/marketing committee's role, I
>     think.
>
>     Just a suggestion, let me know what you think about it.
>
>     Cheers,
>             Martin.
>     --