goodies.xfce.org site migration and eventual decommission

[André Miranda]

Hi Kevin,
I pushed the patches for the plugins I have permissions (22!).
Thanks a lot for your effort!

Cheers,
Andre Miranda

On 04/12/2019 22:44, Kevin Bowen wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> TL:DR - goodies.x.o plugin maintainers have patches ready to apply 
> needed updates to their apps. Please check bugzilla.x.o
>
> ----
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
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