<div dir="ltr"><div>Seems like a good discussion to have for the Drupal Users Group. <br><br>We take a break in July/August, then we have confirmed speakers for September/October. <br><br>It would be a good case study where all attendees brainstorm on what to do with the site (including, go non-Drupal/static, getting an inventory of modules, checking what is upgraded and what not, what can be eliminated, using the migrate module as an alternative to update.php, ...etc.)<br><br></div><div>The question is, can you wait till third week of November?<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Paul Nijjar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Come on, folks. So far it seems that the answer to the questions of<br>
<span class=""><br>
- What is working?<br>
- What is not working?<br>
- What changes do you feel should be made?<br>
<br>
</span>is "the website is too dynamic, so please make it static and also set<br>
up a Gitlab instance to host the git repository to which you hand out<br>
keys"?<br>
<br>
Clearly I did not frame the questions clearly enough.<br>
<br>
- Paul<br>
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On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:09:10AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:<br>
> Oh dear, I think that I might have brainwashed Bob with talk of static web sites. :)<br>
><br>
> Given that <a href="http://kwlug.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kwlug.org</a> does not change that much, and discussion is handled in the mailing list it seems like a good option.<br>
> We could remove the general posting functionality, and just aggregate the FLOSS related blogs of members.<br>
><br>
> Hubert mentioned this:<br>
> > One way to get all that with a static site generator is to set up a git<br>
> > repository on github/gitlab/etc., and give several people write access.<br>
> > Then you can set up a hook that will tell the web server to pull from<br>
> > the git repository and rebuild the site every time someone does a push<br>
> > to the repository.<br>
><br>
> I think this would probably work well. I would pick Gitlab, just because they do actually release the code for their service.<br>
><br>
><br>
> Jekyll[1] is a pretty popular and would be a good option. I have been using middleman [2] for my personal site [3] and <a href="http://kwruby.ca" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kwruby.ca</a> [4], which are both still pretty simple. It seems like a good option too. They both have large collections of plugins.<br>
><br>
> I have tried ikiwiki and found it fiddly, and eventually switched to middleman.<br>
><br>
> Andrew<br>
><br>
> [1] <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://jekyllrb.com/</a><br>
> [2] <a href="https://middlemanapp.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://middlemanapp.com/</a><br>
> [3] <a href="http://andrewsullivancant.ca/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://andrewsullivancant.ca/</a><br>
> [4] <a href="http://kwruby.ca/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://kwruby.ca/</a><br>
><br>
> On 09/07/15 18:40, Chris Irwin wrote:<br>
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Hubert Chathi <<a href="mailto:hubert@uhoreg.ca">hubert@uhoreg.ca</a><br>
> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:hubert@uhoreg.ca">hubert@uhoreg.ca</a>>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > So I'm not volunteering for anything, but... ;)<br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 14:23:16 -0400, Paul Nijjar <<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a><br>
> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca">paul_nijjar@yahoo.ca</a>>> said:<br>
> ><br>
> > > Another thing that is nice with Drupal is having multiple logins. I do<br>
> > > not want to be the only person with commit access, because at some<br>
> > > point other people will need to update KWLUG content.<br>
> ><br>
> > > The third thing is that the content should be updateable by the web,<br>
> > > because giving out SSH credentials like candy might not go over well<br>
> > > with our generous webhosts.<br>
> ><br>
> > One way to get all that with a static site generator is to set up a git<br>
> > repository on github/gitlab/etc., and give several people write access.<br>
> > Then you can set up a hook that will tell the web server to pull from<br>
> > the git repository and rebuild the site every time someone does a push<br>
> > to the repository.<br>
> ><br>
> ><br>
> > Ikiwiki is quite nice in this regard. You push to it (or configure a<br>
> > pull periodically via cron, etc) and it rebuilds static content via a<br>
> > git hook.<br>
> ><br>
> > It supports editing via the web, and supports comments. The http process<br>
> > commits them to git, which means you can fetch & merge them in your<br>
> > local copy.<br>
> ><br>
> > --<br>
> > Chris Irwin<br>
> > <<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:chris@chrisirwin.ca">chris@chrisirwin.ca</a>>><br>
> ><br>
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