[kwlug-disc] Website Wishlist

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

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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