As mentioned in the other thread. A github repository for the website plus
simple html5 and css3 would be more then enough, but we should also target
mobile devices as well as people might use them to file bugs or look up
things. If you guys agree and someone sets up the repository on github or
where ever i can get something done in a matter of hours.
On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Bryce Harrington <br...@bryceharrington.org
> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:19:03PM +1030, Michael T. Pope wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 22:51:23 +0100
> > Jonathan Aquilina <eagles051...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Wordpress is super easy to update
> >
> > Yes, good. I salute your enthusiasm but please understand my caution. I
> > just looked it up, and wordpress has 740(!) CVEs issued since 2003. I
> > knew it was going to be bad, but that is abysmal. To maintain it well
> you
> > are going to need to watch carefully for security announcements and
> > update promptly. Are you sure you can commit to that long term? Even
> > if so, I think if we go with wordpress, we need an emergency exit
> strategy.
> > Perhaps I should wget freecol.org and stash a tarball in the git repo at
> > the very least.
>
> WordPress is awesome, but isn't it a bit overkill for what freecol.org
> needs? There aren't that many pages, and they aren't updated that
> frequently...
>
> I've seen some pretty robust sites done for open source projects using
> just git and some random html templating language. I've even seen a few
> simple ones that just have a really good CSS template and plain HTML.
>
> For example, Cairo's website (cairographics.org) uses a static
> html generator that gets triggered (I think) via git push, which from a
> maintainer POV is convenient since updating the website is essentially
> the same workflow as updating the codebase. And also scriptable...
> cairo's new-version release process also scripts up all the website updates
>
>
> Bryce
>
>
>
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