Qt-contributors-summit-2014-QtCS2014 Unification

Website unification

• website should be driven by the community and the needs of the ecosystem, not by “marketing and sales dudes”
• need to strike balance between open source being good and need to drive sales
• make it easier to find tools from the ecosystem
  • grow the ecosystem
  • talk to Cornelius about inqlude
  • Also make available from Creator and the installer/maintenance tool
• Accounts should also be unified: Qt Account, JIRA/Gerrit, Wiki/Forum
  • There are 22400 JIRA accounts and most of them might be stale
  • Same identity, not single sign-on
• Old Wiki (Media wiki): needs to be shut down
  • Lots of deep-linking into it
  • But Tero would prefer to keep a Mediawiki instance instead of the Expression engine one in the main site
• Changeover should be progressive
  • Start with the most needed pages
  • DevNet has 40000 threads and lots of comments
  • Deep-linking
  • Painful to keep the forums running due to expression engine
• Building of binaries is a separate discussion
  • Cornelius might help with OBS
  • Danimo has experience with it
  • Need to vet binaries coming from third parties (no malware)
• Blog aggregation:
  • Planet Qt continues as it is
  • Planet’s feed should show up on the homepage, headlines only
  • Homepage should have project-wide news
    • Could be an aggregator too
• Calendar / events:
  • Would be nice to consolidate a calendar of events
  • Needs to be a main section of the main website
  • qtdeveloperdays.com needs to be consolidated too
• Need to have governance rules for editing the websites
  • Open Governance, same principles but specialised for the website
  • Similar to the Social Media Guidelines
• Separate topic: better coordination with packagers
  • Linux distro packages, Ministro and mingw.org builds should be available at release time