Hi Daniel / Rich, To be honest, I completely forgot the .asf.yaml was able to do such things, my bad.
Currently the .asf.yaml supports both Jekyll and Pelican. My previous experience with Jekyll is that it is really slow at incrementally generating content when file changes are made (running on the Ubuntu bash shell on Windows). Also it requires ruby, rubygems, etc. to be installed. After your message I tried Pelican as well [1], I have to say, it is fairly easy to install (note: I already had pip installed). However, one big disadvantage would be that Pelican its output is a bit of a mess. Pelican is storing all its generated content in a single folder (e.g. /output/pages), which kinda breaks every link from an external website to community.a.o, e.g. the http://community.apache.org/newcommitter.html link will be broken as well. IMO we need to try to minimize impact when moving over. Of course we can work with RewriteRules and adding a 'Slug' to pages but that just adds extra maintenance. With Hugo I was able to keep all current URLs working. Generating the comdev site is done in ~226 ms. Hugo contains incremental builds as well (useful for development), which it serves from memory instead of writing the generated files to disk (compared to Pelican). Installing Hugo is just as easy as downloading the specified release, extracting the tarball and you're good to go ;) GitHub statistics: Jekyll: 39.7k stars / 8.7k forks / 893 contributors [2] Hugo: 41.7k stars / 4.7k forks / 606 contributors [3] Pelican: 9.4k stars / 1.6k forks / 347 contributors [4] @ Daniel, maybe I can help Infra to possibly support Hugo builds as well ? :) [1] https://github.com/rlenferink/comdev-site/tree/feature/conversion-to-pelican [2] https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll [3] https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/ [4] https://github.com/getpelican/pelican On 2020/02/18 19:47:30, Daniel Gruno <humbed...@apache.org> wrote: > There are pelican auto-builds and auto-publishing via .asf.yaml files > already, as well as custom build steps being introduced on builbot 2. > > see https://s.apache.org/asfyaml for starters... > > On 18/02/2020 13.45, Rich Bowen wrote: > > I would like to hear more about Hugo, since it's not one that I've heard > > of before. > > > > There are a zillion different content frameworks out there, and I have > > no preference for any of them except that the underlying file format is > > standard-ish. Markdown, or something similar that can be easily > > converted to the next framework-du-jour when Hugo is no longer the > > latest hotness. > > > > I would also strenuously encourage you to include Infra in any such > > discussion, before we forge our own new path, while Infra is already > > looking at a CMS replacement. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
