Make changes to drastically simplify site maintenance; Make blog and wiki to use static site generator

[renoirb]

We run with about 20 VMs. 14 of them are about sustaining possible load and to support both WordPress and MediaWiki.

Objective of this task is to simplify system infrastructure and maintenance.

Tasks

• Export Wiki edit history into Git and make a static site generator version of the wiki (see webplatform/docs README file for progress report)
  • Migration scripts and library in webplatform/content-converter, and import script in webplatform/mediawiki-conversion
  • Content migrated in webplatform/docs
  • WPD namespace in webplatform/docs-wpd
  • Meta namespace in webplatform/docs-meta
  • User profiles and old comments
• Export Blog content into a static site generator
• Refactor the homepage to use the same static site generator as the blog and wiki
• Rebuild only required servers

VMs in use

Quantity	Role name	Required only by blog/wiki/project
4	app	yes
2	sessions	(incidental) yes
2	redis	(incidental) yes
2	db	(incidental) yes
4	frontend	no
1	blog	yes
1	bots	no
1	project	yes
1	source	no
2	docker	no
1	stats	no
2	elastic	no
1	postgres	no
1	salt	yes
1	accounts	no

Since we are’t going to host Discourse, that we’ll shut down project.webplatform.org to use GitHub issues, let W3C monitor the IRC channel, and stop using our own installation of Piwik we can also remove most of the infrastructure by this work item.

All that would be left is the static content, we might only really need only [frontend, salt]

[renoirb]

This should be closed, but since I'm going to write about it, here are a few links I had scattered around about this.

• MediaWiki useful queries