[kwlug-disc] Website Wishlist

[Chris Irwin]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca> wrote:

> So I'm not volunteering for anything, but... ;)
>
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 14:23:16 -0400, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca>
> said:
>
> > Another thing that is nice with Drupal is having multiple logins. I do
> > not want to be the only person with commit access, because at some
> > point other people will need to update KWLUG content.
>
> > The third thing is that the content should be updateable by the web,
> > because giving out SSH credentials like candy might not go over well
> > with our generous webhosts.
>
> One way to get all that with a static site generator is to set up a git
> repository on github/gitlab/etc., and give several people write access.
> Then you can set up a hook that will tell the web server to pull from
> the git repository and rebuild the site every time someone does a push
> to the repository.
>

Ikiwiki is quite nice in this regard. You push to it (or configure a pull
periodically via cron, etc) and it rebuilds static content via a git hook.

It supports editing via the web, and supports comments. The http process
commits them to git, which means you can fetch & merge them in your local
copy.

-- 
Chris Irwin
<chris at chrisirwin.ca>
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