[SAC] follow up with SAC on website maintenance

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Jody, Martin, I have created a ticket to track these next steps: 
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1805

-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.
>     --
>      Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends
>     are !