Personally, I hate all these tools. I picked JBake simply because I could figure out how to run it with a simple Maven command.
I really don’t see how you can make it any simpler by changing the tooling. If you look at the instructions they are all git commands except for “mvn install”. The current web site supports markdown and asciidoc. I am not in favor of changing the tooling for the sake of changing the tooling. I am in favor of changing the tooling if there is some major tangible benefit. I have always wanted to use tooling that would let us edit the pages in a GUI editor similar to like Wix or Squarespace do. I despise having to write things in Markdown or Asiciidoc and then run a tool so I can preview what it is going to look like. In other words, I want the ease of editing and maintaining the web site to drive the tooling decision, not the other way around. Ralph > On Sep 22, 2023, at 11:47 AM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@apache.org> > wrote: > > Hello, > > the current landing page: > https://logging.apache.org/ > > is done with JBake. We have rather complicated instructions on how to > re-generate the landing page: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/LOGGING/Managing+the+Logging+Services+Web+Sites > > The Infra team recommends Pelican or Jekyll to create these kinds of pages. I > have in-depth knowledge of Jekyll and would like to propose migrating the > current landing page to Jekyll. > > The benefits: > > - autodeploy of our changes > - great support of blogging (I'd like to create one) > - easy handling and supported by Infra > - writing content in Markdown > > I am aware that we have a discussion open on how to do documentation in the > future. I would still like to migrate the page asap and - if deemed > necessary - touch it again later. > > So far, I will leave all design/content intact until migrated, and come back > with additional changes (as the blog) after migration to be discussed > separately. > > If there are no objections, I will start with this move sometime next week. > > Thanks! > Christian > > -- > The Apache Software Foundation > V.P., Data Privacy
