Our website has aged in the recent years. This post is to collect relevant information and collect community input and needs.
Current State
- Our website’s code is on github. There are (at writing) about 50 open issues tracked.
- There is also the jobs page. One can generate git commits from a form and the jobs page renders a list of jobs. Jobs need to be removed manually.
- There is also this discourse, but thats hosted for us by discourse. Nice.
Future concerns
There are some some broad concerns
- What should the website provide? There is a lot of potential concent, but anything thats not our own content (and sometimes even that) needs to be maintained (e.g. links checked and updated)
- How to make the website easy to change and adapt?
- How to deal with dynamic content like the job board? It poses some challenges, since running it both needs some expert knowledge (in Heroku, I think?) as well as payment for Heroku.
Research/Input
- I am not aware of us doing any tracking or other measurement
- There is a post on what OSD does for community members with some input.
- We could also consider running a survey on community needs and current use of the website.
Existing maintanance work
Currently the following tasks need to be done regularly with/for/in our website infrastructure:
- Clean out old jobs in the repo: Asking if they should be still up, close if not
- Fix website HTML, CSS if bugs are found
- Check if links are still up-to-date or content itself is outdated
- Moderate the forum
