Hi Pat, On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 09:52:25 -0500 Pat David via gimp-web-list <gimp-web-list@gnome.org> wrote:
> Hello Shlomi and Marco! > > > 1. How is Hugo superior to Pelican wrt the gimp.org site? > > There are a few ways (this is based roughly on a fun dive through various > static site generators over the last 6-7 years): > > 1. It's a self-contained binary for the generator. No other requirements or > dependencies. > 2. It's under very active development by the community and pushes updates > and security fixes almost every month (or a couple of times a month). > 3. It's FAST to build a site. Right now if you change something in gimp.org > with Pelican it takes around 3-4 minutes to build the site. Hugo has been > building in a few seconds (for some of the other sites I've done that are > not too far off in similar size). Even if you change the inner content of a single page? I think using Pelican to build gimp.org (from scratch) was faster than 3 minutes here - I can check again. > 4. The source/output file organization is a better mental model of how a > site would normally be built (pages for directories, lists, etc etc - I had > to hack at Pelican to get the generator to build output similar to what was > sitting on disk.). > 5. Easy i18n support out of the box (this might require some modifications > to interface with po files to support marco, I'll look into it). > 6. Did I mention it's fast? > 7. We (pixls.us folks) have migrated all of the sites we're managing over > to Hugo already (just finished up the darktable.org migration) so it makes > it easier for me to ask other users to help out as they're already familar > with the tooling (asking them to look at pelican usually results in silence > in IRC... :D :D :D ). > > I have not gotten a consensus per se, other than to see if current people > hacking at it would be ok with it (nmat, maybe Jehan but I haven't bothered > him with this yet). > > Ultimately my hope would be that we can lower the barrier to entry for > creating content/posts on the site and possibly engage the broader > community more (one can hope...). > All these sound like good reasons. > Hopefully that makes sense? > > On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 8:45 AM Marco Ciampa via gimp-web-list < > gimp-web-list@gnome.org> wrote: > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/ - my dotfiles <danderson> “We are NO LONGER the knights who say ‘BitKeeper’. We are now the knights who say ‘git, git, git, cogito — Linus!’.” Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ gimp-web-list mailing list gimp-web-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-web-list
