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Nice. We are currently moving Our World in Data from MySQL to git as well. Since 2017 I've moved all CMS I am responsible for to Git from MySQL and haven't loo
by breck 6y ago
Nice. We are currently moving Our World in Data from MySQL to git as well.
Since 2017 I've moved all CMS I am responsible for to Git from MySQL and haven't looked back. You can still preserve any frontend experiences you want, but get to drop a huge dependency, a lot of code, and gain a ton of new capabilities (faster syncing, easier backups, forks, patches, full audit trails, etc). You never need to worry about migrations again or build your own change control logic.
- ognarb 6y agoYes, in KDE we also moved most of our websites to static website generators to Jekyll or Hugo. From the more than 20 websites only a few are still using Drupal 7 or a custom php framework. The last one and biggest website to be migrated https://kde.org https://kde.org was a big challenge because it is an 20 years old websites with thousands of pages and translations. But my efforts are finally paying off and we saw an increase of 33% in the visitor count of the website and the current codebase made it so much easier to work with and add new content. And this time, I blogged about it: https://carlschwan.eu/2020/10/30/kde-org-hugo.html https://carlschwan.eu/2020/10/30/kde-org-hugo.html
- breck 6y agoNice! Good writeup too. When I click "Edit this page" I am asked to sign in. Is there a reason for that? I'd expect to see the source and be able to submit a PR as a normal repo on Gitlab.