[kwlug-disc] Website Wishlist

Sat Jul 11 10:15:35 EDT 2015

Seems like a good discussion to have for the Drupal Users Group.

We take a break in July/August, then we have confirmed speakers for
September/October.

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.)

The question is, can you wait till third week of November?

On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:

>
> 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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