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 >> >> >> -- >> Andy Wenk >> Hamburg - Germany >> RockIt! >> >> GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 >> >> https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
signature.asc
Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail
