On 9/15/25 10:49 AM, Daniel Sahlberg wrote:
>
> HTTPd is using ASF Pelican [1] to generate static pages from HTML. I agree
> with Brane on preferring MD over XML and with the
> simple integration of Pelican in GitHub Actions it makes updating the site a
> lot easier. (The documentation in our site is good,
> but it still took me a while to setup a JRE and run Anakia the first time).
>
> The upside of using Pelican is that it is more widely used and actively
> supported. The version of Anakia/Velocity we have in
> /libs/ is a little dated.. Not that it couldn't be updated to an active
> version but I tried and failed...
>
> I'm not sure when I would be able to contribute a significant amount of time
> to migrate to Pelican but if it is in the interest of
> the project, we could decide to make it a longterm goal to migrate.
I think it would make sense to switch to Pelican. Let's have it as a goal.
Regards
Rüdiger
