On 24 Jun 2014, at 12:20 , Lena Reinhard <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Dave, as you know I did some work with Hugo in the Swirl project. My blog
>> on the other hand is now created with jekyll. I have to admit, that jekyll
>> is way easier to use and is also based on git (
>> https://github.com/andywenk/andywenk.github.io). So my conclusion is that
>> hugo is great for usage as a documentation tool and jekyll fits better for
>> a blog.
>> 
>> On the other hand, the software on blog.couchdb.org is already a WP. So do
>> we need to change that?
> 
> Although I heard Jekyll and Hugo are nice, I'd say:
> - Community management hat: I'd love to choose a tool that keeps entry 
> barriers low, also for future committers. I know that many marketing people 
> are used to WP and I'd definitely love to get more non-coding committers on 
> board and reduce dependencies. It's bad for devs if marketing people have to 
> ask for help frequently, also regarding lack of focus, and can tend to be 
> frustrating for marketing people, too. And the more we can reduce that from 
> the beginning, the better for the community.
> - Personal hat: happy with anything, but used to WP :)) 
> - Marketing hat: whatever makes migration easiest. Plus: WP could be good as 
> it's already there, and makes administration etc. easy. Also: tools preferred 
> that enable independence.
> 
>>>> And who wants to do the data migration?
>>> 
>>> I can do it, I like tedious repetitive tasks that can be done whenever
>>> a few spare minutes appear.
>> 
>> 
>> he he :)
>> 
>> 
>>> I should be able to revert the current
>>> HTML versions into markdown via pandoc without too much pain.
>>> 
>> 
>> oh yes - I was wondering how we can manage that and pandoc should be
>> perfect.
>> 
>> When using pandoc in the way Dave proposed, it is maybe a good idea to
>> rethink WP but I have to admit that I don't know with what format one can
>> feed WP for content. Maybe also Markdown?
> 
> WP can't be fed with Markdown yet, unfortunately. WYSIWYG-editor-only.

In fact, since this is hosted on wordpress.com, Markdown is supported :)

Best
Jan
--

> 
> Else: what Jan says :) 
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> A+
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> [1]: http://hugo.spf13.com/
>>> [2]: http://octopress.org/
>>> [3]: http://jekyllrb.com/
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Andy
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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