Re: Ideas for gnome.org

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

On Tue, 6 Sep, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 1:58 AM Andreas Nilsson <lists andreasn se> wrote:

On 2016-09-05 17:43, aday gnome org wrote:
>
> This got me wondering: if the blog part of the site was moved
> elsewhere, would there be any reason to continue using Wordpress for
> gnome.org?! With the blogging part being taken care of by a separate
> site, maybe we could go with  more minimal solution for gnome.org.
> Having experienced this type of website setup for flatpak.org, I have
> to say that it's a really nice way to work, and it could make it
> easier to do a redesign of the website.

I would like if we could figure out how a redesign would look before
switching backend engines.
I like the wordpress more than the static site generator we had before
(not only for the handy edit button, but also because the old system
broke down a lot), but if we want to build something that would benefit
from a static site generator, I think we should choose the right tool
for the job.

I agree with Andreas, we had that solution before and it didn't really pan out.  It was huge relief to actually switch into wordpress at the time.

I don't think it's logically correct to write off all static site generators just because the one we used 6+ years ago had issues. (Which isn't to say that I disagree with Andreas - the current Wordpress site *is* nicer than what we had before.)

Allan