[kwlug-disc] Website Wishlist

[Paul Nijjar]

Come on, folks. So far it seems that the answer to the questions of 

- What is working?
- What is not working?
- What changes do you feel should be made?

is "the website is too dynamic, so please make it static and also set
up a Gitlab instance to host the git repository to which you hand out
keys"?

Clearly I did not frame the questions clearly enough.

- Paul 

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 12:09:10AM -0400, Andrew Sullivan Cant wrote:
> Oh dear, I think that I might have brainwashed Bob with talk of static web sites. :)
> 
> Given that kwlug.org does not change that much, and discussion is handled in the mailing list it seems like a good option.
> We could remove the general posting functionality, and just aggregate the FLOSS related blogs of members.
> 
> Hubert mentioned this:
> > 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.
> 
> I think this would probably work well. I would pick Gitlab, just because they do actually release the code for their service.
> 
> 
> Jekyll[1] is a pretty popular and would be a good option. I have been using middleman [2] for my personal site [3] and kwruby.ca [4], which are both still pretty simple. It seems like a good option too. They both have large collections of plugins.
> 
> I have tried ikiwiki and found it fiddly, and eventually switched to middleman.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> [1] http://jekyllrb.com/
> [2] https://middlemanapp.com/
> [3] http://andrewsullivancant.ca/
> [4] http://kwruby.ca/
> 
> On 09/07/15 18:40, Chris Irwin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Hubert Chathi <hubert at uhoreg.ca
> > <mailto: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
> >     <mailto: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 <mailto:chris at chrisirwin.ca>>
> >
> >
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