goodies.xfce.org site migration and eventual decommission

[Kevin Bowen]

Hello everyone,

TL:DR - goodies.x.o plugin maintainers have patches ready to apply 
needed updates to their apps. Please check bugzilla.x.o

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I wanted to provide an update on the progress for this little project of 
mine. Most of the goodies.x.o website work has been successfully completed.

  As of last night, all of the goodies.x.o pages for active 
panel-plugins, thunar-plugins, and apps are now being redirected to 
current documentation on docs.x.o. What this means is that when a user 
clicks on the link in their xfce component, regardless of version, they 
will be sent to a docs.x.o help page.

The rest of the site has been set to read-only. Aside from some 
remaining cleanup, no more changes will be made to the site.

31 patches and bugzilla tickets have been created to update any code 
that references goodies.xfce.org to point to docs.xfce.org. As of today, 
four patches have been merged into their respective repos.

So, if you are a maintainer of one of these components, please check 
this patches and update your code trees. Please see the list of 
patches/bug #s here: 
https://wiki.xfce.org/projects/goodies-decomm/start#patches_bug_ids

I'd appreciate your assistance in getting your code updated.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks.

Kevin

P.S. For any of you who may be feeling nostalgic for the good ol' days 
of goodies, here is an archive page of an early versions of the news on 
goodies.xfce.org from ~13 years ago: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20061011053437/http://goodies.xfce.org/news


On 11/9/19 3:42 PM, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> TL:DR - Documentation, projects and their dependencies are being 
> migrated off of https://goodies.xfce.org to https://docs.xfce.org 
> beginning this month.
>             The goodies.xfce.org is eventually going to be 
> decommissioned.
>
> ===
>
> Starting this week, I am going to begin migrating documentation for 
> active plugins and apps from goodies.xfce.org over to their 
> appropriate locations on docs.xfce.org.
>
> At this point, the criteria being used to determine a deprecated 
> project is if the plugin/app has code on https://git.xfce.org. As the 
> migration proceeds, the pages on goodies will be set to read-only for 
> most accounts. Going forward, plugin documentation should primarily 
> occur on the relevant pages here: 
> https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-panel/start#external_plugins
>
> Please don't hesitate to contact me directly if you need to update the 
> documentation on docs.x.o and I will get you set up with the proper 
> permissions. As I go through and audit, migrate and update the 
> documentation, I may be reaching out to maintainers on an as-needed 
> basis. I will try and keep the noise to a minimum.
>
> Once the documentation is moved, goodies.xfce.org will NOT go away 
> immediately, as there are code dependencies in the plugins that will 
> need to be resolved to point to the new locations on docs.xfce.org.
>
> The scope and details of this project will be tracked and updated 
> here: https://wiki.xfce.org/projects/goodies-decomm/start.
>
> Again, feel free to contact me either on/off-list if you have any 
> questions, concerns or you foresee any risks moving forward.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
>