No rush! I can wait for infra to fix up the issues in the build system. -- Josh Tynjala Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev>
On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 9:52 AM Andrew Wetmore <cottag...@gmail.com> wrote: > The problem at the moment is that there is a significant issue in the > Apache build structure. Infra is working to resolve that. Then we will > update both the template and the instructions for using it. THEN everything > will flow again. > > We will be able to build and test locally, but not for a long week. In the > meantime Royale can add content to the royale-pelican-website repo and see > what happens in the staging site. Obviously less than ideal, but leading > toward a solution that is tightly integrated with the build process > > Royale could, for the duration of this awkward period, let you move ahead > with your work to test out whether Pelican can provide a site we like the > look of, and the rest of us can restrain ourselves from making > contributions. So the staging site would effectively be your local > test site. > > Or, as you say, Royale can evaluate other static site creators. Which will > also encounter the current issue in the build system. > > a > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 1:19 PM Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@bowlerhat.dev> > wrote: > > > Continuing a discussion from the private@ thread that doesn't need to be > > private. > > > > I find that working on web pages requires tons of minor tweaks and > > experimentation with styles and things, which will take way more time if > I > > need to commit and push it all. Additionally, I'd rather not flood the > > commits mailing list with all of this unnecessary noise when I should be > > able to do my debugging locally. Not to mention that I'll need to figure > > out things like Pelican's way of collecting blog posts to display in > > chronological order (including generating RSS feeds automatically) — > which > > I think is safe to predict won't work on my first few tries. > > > > To be clear, if I can't test locally, I'm a strong -1 on using Pelican. > If > > Pelican isn't easy to set up and use locally, we can find a better > > static site generator. > > > > -- > > Josh Tynjala > > Bowler Hat LLC <https://bowlerhat.dev> > > > > >
