Relocating assets/images/partners to static/partners

[Zedoman]

Description

This PR fixes #7256 by relocating assets/images/partners to static/partners and updating all references to use absolute static paths.

Notes for Reviewers
No functional changes beyond asset relocation and reference updates.

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[l5io]

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[l5io]

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[Zedoman]

Hi @Rajesh-Nagarajan-11, Can you please review it once.

[CodexRaunak]

@Zedoman Since the static directory get's included as it is in the site build, shouldn't it be clean?

[l5io]

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[Zedoman]

@Zedoman Since the static directory get's included as it is in the site build, shouldn't it be clean?

I didnt get the point. Clean means?

[l5io]

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[Bhumikagarggg]

@Zedoman Thank you for your contribution! Let's discuss this during the website call today at 6:30 PM IST | 7 AM CST Add it as an agenda item to the meeting minutes, if you would 🙂

[leecalcote]

Review

Thank you for tackling #7256! Moving partner assets to static/ is the correct Gatsby pattern. However, there's a functional regression that needs to be addressed before this can merge.

🔴 Color-mode SVGs will break

Files with the -colorMode.svg suffix (e.g., citrix-colorMode.svg, cncf-stacked-colorMode.svg, intel-colorMode.svg, oam-colorMode.svg, etc.) rely on inline SVG rendering to support light/dark theming via CSS currentColor or CSS variables. When imported as ReactComponent, they render as inline <svg> elements that CSS can style.

After this PR, they are changed to <img src> references, which load SVGs as external resources — CSS cannot reach into the SVG to change fill/stroke. The color-mode switching will silently break for ~14 partner logos in:

• src/sections/Home/Proud-maintainers/index.js (CNCF, OAM)
• src/sections/Partners/partners.js (Citrix, CNCF-stacked, HashiCorp, HPE, Istio, Microsoft, RedHat, Intel, VMware, Metabit, Docker, DigitalOcean)

These -colorMode.svg files should remain as ReactComponent imports (kept in src/assets/ or re-imported inline), or the theming approach needs to change.

🟡 Minor: StaticImage → img loses Gatsby image optimization

In Careers-Internship-grid/index.js, StaticImage is replaced with plain <img> for the university partner logos. StaticImage provides lazy loading, WebP conversion, and blur-up placeholders. This is a minor regression, though using StaticImage with variables was already technically invalid (Gatsby requires string literals for src).

✅ What's good

• Moving to static/partners/ is the right approach for Gatsby public assets
• The LazyPartnerImage guard (typeof partner.imageLink === "function") correctly handles the mixed-type imageLink values
• MDX path and export const changes are correct
• GraphQL formatting cleanup is a nice improvement

Please fix the -colorMode.svg inline SVG issue and this will be in good shape to merge.

[saurabhraghuvanshii]

hi @Zedoman Please address above comment^^

[Zedoman]

Hello @saurabhraghuvanshii ,

Sure. Apologies for the delay — I assumed the task had been rejected since there hadn’t been any review updates. Thank you for the response.

@leecalcote , I will update it as soon as possible.

[l5io]

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[Zedoman]

@saurabhraghuvanshii @leecalcote Sir You can check now once.

[saurabhraghuvanshii]

Looking ....

[saurabhraghuvanshii]

@Zedoman I think images should be move to /static/images/partners not directly to /static/partners

and Please resolve merge conflicts.

[Zedoman]

Ok sure.

[Zedoman]

Ok sir. I will update once its done.

[Zedoman]

@saurabhraghuvanshii I have fixed the changes but for the conflict I couldnt see in my local.