[tei-council] Sourceforge retiring Hosted Apps

[David Sewell]

This is not good news. We have been relying on the SourceForge Wordpress blog to 
feed the newsfeed used on the home page of tei-c.org. It's a clunky mechanism, 
but it's what we have at the moment.

In principle, it shouldn't be difficult to migrate the WordPress content to a 
different platform and continue that procedure, only it would mean (1) coming up 
with an appropriate host, (2) doing the migration, (3) creating new WordPress 
user accounts with appropriate permissions, (4) rewriting James's newsfeed 
grabbing code to use the new site. It doesn't help matters that the SF WordPress 
area (http://sourceforge.net/apps/wordpress/tei/) has been offline more often 
than not lately.

It might almost be simpler to go back to hand-editing the page at 
http://www.tei-c.org/News/ (via OpenCMS), and then making the home-page sidebar 
static and updating links there manually.

David

On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Martin Holmes wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I got a warning from SF this morning, which I guess everyone else will
> also have got, about the retirement of Hosted Apps:
>
> <http://sourceforge.net/blog/hosted-apps-retirement/>
>
> For TEI, I guess this means that WordPress will be going away. I don't
> think we use any other Hosted Apps, do we? I see that LimeSurvey,
> MediaWiki and Trac are all enabled in our SF profile, but the only one I
> recall using was WordPress, for making some kind of announcement during
> the process of a release.
>
> Do we still really need this functionality, or can we let all the Hosted
> Apps die a natural death?
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>

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