Hi Andrew, It is possible build our website with Royale. We are unfortunately suffer with lack of volunteer who can do this - this is the main problem in my opinion.
Thanks, Piotr czw., 15 kwi 2021 o 01:51 Andrew Wetmore <cottag...@gmail.com> napisał(a): > Hi: > > At the moment the Royale website depends on a private server running > WordPress. I wonder if it is time to build and deploy it using Royale > itself. > > We don't need the great strengths of Royale--dynamic display, subtle > data-processing, and so on--to support the site. It is (as all projects > sites are intended to be) a flat, relatively static website. That should > mean that running our own website with the aid of our own tool should be > far from impossible. > > What is required? If I understand correctly, we would need Infra to provide > a virtual machine on which we could install and run a stable instance of > Royale, and a repository of the site's source code in MXML and AS > files, just like a real Royale application.. Each time we updated a page or > a file in the website repository, Infra's automated tools would set off a > build and deployment of the updated site. > > Some time ago a proof-of-concept was partly built to do this very thing, so > we have some resources to start from. > > Benefits: > > -- Since it is a simple website, it should probably be an exercise > contributors and committers at many skill levels could help work on. > -- It would give us a "brag" to point to. > -- We would move over to open-source resources, rather than those of > WordPress.. > -- Infra has an efficient and stable CI process in place that can work with > Royale's command-line to trigger builds and deployment. > -- Other???? > > Costs: > > -- Time to migrate the existing site into Royale assets. > -- Other????? > > What do you all think of such a proposal? > > a > > -- > Andrew Wetmore > -- Piotr Zarzycki
