Re: freetype.org now hosted on gitlab pages

[Bermler]

By the way, is there is any way the http version of the site can be preserved in any way? Before the migration it was there. Basically both the http and https versions of the site should remain open instead of just https with http redirecting to https. It should be possible with Cloudflare.

Many of our peers (zlib, varnish cache software, libpng) are using the http and https structure and I like this way so older laptops and devices and access the site before. The Cloudflare cert are new and older devices may not have its certification installed.

On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 1:25 PM, Anurag Thakur <devanuragthakur@gmail.com> wrote:

Well, changing to cloudflare was just a 2 line change, and if it gives us worldwide superfast CDN for free, I don't see any reason not to use it :)

Regards

Anurag

On Tue, 26 Oct, 2021, 10:50 PM Bermler, <freetype@protonmail.com> wrote:

I don’t think having the site behind Cloudflare is necessary at least for now. It should just point directly to gitlab. After all didn’t we say small steps?

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On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 12:30 PM, Anurag Thakur <devanuragthakur@gmail.com> wrote:

As discussed with the maintainers, the freetype.org domain hosting has been changed to gitlab pages, along with cloudflare CDN.

Currently the gitlab pages are hosted on gitlab.com, via this repo:

https://gitlab.com/freetype/freetype-web

I chose gitlab.com instead of freedesktop.org since it was the easiest way to make sure that the website is uninterrupted while we work on the redesign, and it simultaneously allowed me to do the migration to gitlab+cloudflare.

After the redesign is complete, changing the hosting to freedesktop.org would just require modifying 2 DNS records.

Please note that all development should happen on the freedesktop.org repo:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype-web

Do NOT send any MRs/commit to the gitlab.com repo.

I would like to request the maintainers to clear any config left on the previous hosting platform/any shell scripts used to manage the website, since it's all managed by gitlab pages now.

Happy to answer any questions

Regards

Anurag