Replace about page with platform guide

The developer site has a fairly good platform guide that is much more
comprehensive than the "about" page on the main website. Remove the about
page in favour of the platform guide.

This page needs more updating. That will be done in a future commit.

Signed-off-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@collabora.com>

config.toml

@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ languageCode = "en-us"
     url = "policies/copyrights/"
     name = "Copyright Statement"
     weight = 1
-  [[menu.footer]]
-    url = "policies/about_apertis/"
-    name = "About Apertis"
-    weight = 2
   [[menu.footer]]
     url = "policies/privacy_policy/"
     name = "Privacy Policy"

content/_index.md

@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ aliases = [
 ]
 +++
 
-Apertis is a versatile open source infrastructure tailored to the
-automotive needs and fit for a wide variety of electronic devices.
-Security and modularity are two of its primary strengths. Apertis
-provides a feature-rich framework for add-on software and resilient
-upgrade capabilities. Beyond an operating system, it offers new APIs,
-tools and cloud services.
+Apertis is a versatile
+[open source infrastructure]({{< ref "platform-guide.md" >}}) tailored to the
+automotive needs and fit for a wide variety of electronic devices.  Security
+and modularity are two of its primary strengths. Apertis provides a
+feature-rich framework for add-on software and resilient upgrade capabilities.
+Beyond an operating system, it offers new APIs, tools and cloud services.
 
 # Production Friendly
 

content/developer/platform-guide.md → content/architecture/platform-guide.md

 +++
 short-description = "Introductory guide to the Apertis platform"
 license = "CC-BY-SAv4.0"
-title = "Apertis Platform Guide"
+title = "The Apertis Platform"
 weight = 100
-aliases = [ "/old-developer/latest/platform-guide.html", "/old-developer/v2019/platform-guide.html", "/old-developer/v2020/platform-guide.html", "/old-developer/v2021pre/platform-guide.html", "/old-developer/v2022dev0/platform-guide.html",]
-outputs = [ "html", "pdf-in",]
+aliases = [
+    "/old-developer/latest/platform-guide.html",
+    "/old-developer/v2019/platform-guide.html",
+    "/old-developer/v2020/platform-guide.html",
+    "/old-developer/v2021pre/platform-guide.html",
+    "/old-developer/v2022dev0/platform-guide.html",
+    "/old-wiki/Apertis:About"
+]
 date = "2017-07-25"
 +++
 
@@ -14,7 +20,7 @@ modularity are two of its primary strengths.  Apertis provides a feature-rich
 framework for add-on software and resilient upgrade capabilities.
 Beyond an operating system, it offers new APIs, tools and cloud services.
 
-Apertis is not just a Ubuntu/Debian-derived Linux distribution:
+Apertis is not just a Debian-derived GNU/Linux distribution:
 it comprises code hosting, code review tools, package build and image
 generation services, and an automated testing infrastructure with the aim of
 providing a clean, reliable environment to let developers go from sources to
@@ -104,12 +110,11 @@ applications and application bundles defines additional modularity boundaries
 that allow fixes to be deployed quickly without impacting the product stability.
 
 To be able to deliver recurrent updates efficiently a close relation to all the
-upstream projects, from the Linux kernel to Debian and Ubuntu.
-Aligning with Ubuntu LTS enables Apertis to directly benefit from its long term
-quality management and steady flow of fixes.
-Importing more up-to-date packages from Debian where relevant builds on top of
-push for quality, compatibility and maturity shared by Debian and by its many
-derived distributions.
+upstream projects, from the Linux kernel to Debian.  Aligning with Debian
+Stable and importing more up-to-date packages from Debian testing where
+relevant enables Apertis to directly benefit from its long term quality
+management, steady flow of fixes, compatibility and maturity, as shared by
+Debian and by its many derived distributions.
 By closely tracking its upstreams, Apertis benefits from their well-defined
 CVE processes to identify urgent issues that affect packages hosted in the
 repositories and quickly act on those.
@@ -124,16 +129,16 @@ Development, customization and variant handling rely on packages, and
 deployable images are the result of combining binary packages belonging to a
 specific set in a post-process step.
 
-This enables to share infrastructure resources like compilation across all
-users, since changes gets processed once and resulting binaries gets shared
-with all. These resources are immediately available to every team, since
-they are provided as a service they do not simply reside on
-a dedicated developer machine. This ensures reproducibility, traceability and
-consistency during the whole product life cycle.
+This enables infrastructure resources like compilation to be shared across all
+users, with changes getting processed once and resulting binaries being shared
+with all. These resources are immediately available to every team, since they
+are provided as a service they do not simply reside on a dedicated developer
+machine. This ensures reproducibility, traceability and consistency during the
+whole product life cycle.
 
 # From sources to deployment
 
-Apertis is built on top of Ubuntu/Debian `deb` packages for their high quality
+Apertis is built on top of Debian `deb` packages for their high quality
 and modularity.  All the source packages are stored in the [Open Build Service
 (OBS) instance](https://build.collabora.com) provided by Collabora where the
 Apertis OBS projects are hosted: each release is currently composed of a set of
@@ -157,11 +162,11 @@ and resolves dependencies from a clean state using the packages it has built
 already: if any dependency is missing the build fails and the developer is
 notified.
 
-Most of the package sources get automatically updated from the latest Ubuntu
-LTS release or have been manually picked from later Ubuntu/Debian releases when
+Most of the package sources get automatically updated from the latest Debian
+Stable release or have been manually picked from later Debian release when
 more up-to-date versions have been deemed beneficial (one example of that is
 the `systemd` package). This allows Apertis to share bugfixes and security
-fixes with the efforts done by the wider Ubuntu and Debian communities.
+fixes with the efforts done by the wider Debian community.
 
 Packages specific to Apertis have their sources stored in [git
 repositories hosted on the Apertis infrastructure](https://git.apertis.org).
@@ -254,8 +259,7 @@ The keypoints in the workflow for Apertis components are thus:
 ## Software components packaging (deb)
 
 For all the software components meant to be included in the images Apertis uses
-the [`deb` packaging format](https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging) used by Debian
-and Ubuntu.
+the [`deb` packaging format](https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging) used by Debian.
 
 To package a component from scratch, Debian provides [a short guide to get
 started](https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro).
@@ -422,7 +426,7 @@ and handled in a timely fashion by developers.
 
 Apertis makes heavy use of some technologies for its purposes:
 
-* Ubuntu/Debian packages
+* Debian packages
 * Systemd for application lifecycle tracking
 * AppArmor for policy enforcement
 * OSTree/Flatpak for safe and efficient deployments

content/policies/about_apertis.md

-+++
-date = "2016-08-15"
-weight = 100
-
-title = "About Apertis"
-
-aliases = [
-    "/old-wiki/Apertis:About"
-]
-+++
-
-Apertis is a
-[FOSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software)
-([Free](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software) and [open
-source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software)) GNU/Linux-based
-platform tailored to the automotive needs and fit for a wide variety of
-electronic devices. It is a distribution derived from Debian/Ubuntu and geared
-towards the creation of product-specific images for ARM and Intel x86 systems.
-
-Apertis comes with a range of built-in features, which can be expanded
-upon with custom applications that are available through an App Store.
-
-It is not intended to support mission-critical features in vehicles
-(such as steering, brakes, engine control, *etc*.), rather provide the
-information (for example, web navigation, weather information,
-geolocation, contacts, *etc*.) and entertainment (for example, radio,
-music, videos, *etc*.) features, in an app-centric fashion. It is
-updated regularly to keep track of features and security fixes.