tickets #15806
closed
Evaluate alternatives as replacement for planet.opensuse.org
Added by Anonymous over 7 years ago.
Updated over 4 years ago.
Description
The currently used planet software driving planet.opensuse.org is
- not maintained
- needs fixes
Instead of trying to jump into the boat and get (again) a single point of contact/failure, let's try a maintained upstream solution as replacement.
To evaluate:
I just had a quick look at the homepages because I don't know any of them. First impressions:
moonmoon recommends "SetEnv PHP_VER 5" and uses SimplePie. The "simplefeed" wiki extension also uses SimplePie, and breaks with PHP7 (well, it asks to be replaced by something better ;-) So if someone tests moonmoon, please test with PHP7 to make sure it will still work next year ;-)
Planet Venus: the list of unittests is longer than the text on the homepage - nice :-)
Planet Planet is used by lots of projects, so it can't be too bad ;-) and there's a good chance that it's maintained for a long time. Those real-world tests ;-) compensate that there are fewer unit tests.
I don't know the software behind the current planet and what problems/bugs is has, but I wouldn't be too surprised if fixing the bugs takes longer than migrating to something that just works. Also, I'd guess making the theme openSUSE'ish probably takes the most time, but maybe that's something where Cynthia Sanchez could help ;-) (BTW: I remember discussions about a reimplementation of the Bento theme in bootstrap (which would give us a responsive layout "for free"), but I'm not sure if this was ever done)
- Private changed from Yes to No
planet-planet is old, venus is its fork. There is not much happening because the software is quite stable and doesn't need much development. Venus is what planet.gentoo.org is using, which I've been maintaining for years. That said, I am not convinced that our planet solution needs any maintenance (more info please) or it needs any fixes (also more info please). A new UI design can be done even in our current solution as well. (For the record, this is the git repo of planet.gentoo.org https://gitweb.gentoo.org/sites/planet.git/ in case someone wants to compare venus with the planet.o.o design and configs)
Darix told me that the current planet.o.o uses planetplanet, which means you can remove that from the candidate list ;-)
A known problem with the current planet.o.o is that the RSS feed sometimes contains old entries which are typically empty (just showing the title) or don't even include a <link>. I see this problem maybe once a month. However, I don't know if venus has this fixed.
We - at ownCloud - don't like using planet any more, too.
An alternative way is using Wordpress with WP RSS Aggregator:
The problem is the security of Wordpress and that somebody has to look that Wordpress is updated.
We integrate that into our website and evaluate it now. A feature is, that you can filter blog entries with special topics.
- Description updated (diff)
- Status changed from New to Rejected
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
Evaluation done: no news.
-> Closing after 3 years.
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