[Po4a-devel] Alioth is closing, po4a needs a new home very soon

[Marco Ciampa]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:48:08PM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote:
> Hello guys, thanks for your quick answer.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 03:19:40PM +0100, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2018, at 2:45 PM, Brian Exelbierd wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am happy to work on getting the site running on GitHub pages.  One 
> > > challenge is that GH pages doesn't support SSL.  I believe we have two 
> > > options:
> > > 
> > > 1) Use Cloudflare's free service to do this.  I am not fully in favor of 
> > > this because I feel like it is "fake" SSL because cloudflare pulls from 
> > > the non-SSL gh pages.
> > > 
> > > 2) I may be able to get us hosting via Red Hat's Open Source and 
> > > Standards Community Cage program.  This would be full featured and 
> > > probably involve a container (with possible CI interface) running on 
> > > OpenShift.  It is SSL capable.
> > 
> > Looking at this a bit more I don't think GH pages is an option.  We make use of php to drive some components and I believe GH pages is static content only.
> > 
> > I see two options:
> > 
> > 1) Convert to a static system (jekyll, asciibinder, etc.)
> > 2) Use a full featured host ala #2 above.
> > 
> > I'll keep pushing on #2, but I'd like to know if anyone would object to moving to a static page generator.
> 
> I don't think we need more than a static system. Using php is a bit
> too much for what we do (basically language switching and automatic
> TOC generation, if I remember well). I would personnally not be
> opposed to jekyll or any other similar solution.

I also prefer static pages generators: more secure, less maintenance,
more performance, less trouble migrating ... etc.

We use hugo with the KiCad site (contents are in Asciidoc format): 

http://kicad-pcb.org/
https://gohugo.io/

bye

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Marco Ciampa

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