Re: [ML] Hosting of gnustep.org

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

> Am 19.01.2021 um 13:01 schrieb David Chisnall <gnustep@theravensnest.org>:
> 
> [ Disclaimer: I work for the company that owns GitHub, but these opinions are 
> my own and not corporate policy ]
> 
> On 18/01/2021 23:36, Ivan Vučica wrote:
>> - Should we turn the index into a set of static pages generated from
>> MySQL data, which we then check in?
>> - If we turn each entry into a single .md file, we can perhaps
>> leveragehttps://github.com/allejo/jekyll-toc
> 
> There are two things you can do with GitHub Pages:
> 
> - Run a GitHub Action that builds the branch that Pages uses from commits to 
> another branch (using whatever static site generator you want).
> - Use GitHub's version of Jekyll to do this transparently.
> 
> I generally prefer the latter where possible.  There are some places where it 
> doesn't work (for example, if you want to run Doxygen or similar to generate 
> API docs on any commit to a header file), but it's generally pretty good.
> 
> The big downside of using GitHub Pages' version of Jekyll is that you can't 
> run arbitrary Jekyll plugins unless they are shipped with the GitHub install. 
>  That said, you don't need anything custom to do aggregation like this.  
> Jekyll's support for collections makes it very easy to write pages that have 
> summaries and detail both generated from the same data (YAML file or Markdown 
> files in a directory with YAML in their frontmatter).  I've used this, for 
> example, for open student projects on my University web page: each project 
> has a description in a .md file with who it's appropriate for, whether it was 
> completed already, and so on and these are built into a family of pages with 
> navigation links and summaries between them.
> 
> Jekyll has some rough corners, but it can generally be battered into the 
> right shape for most things.

How would all this work for dynamic content like 
http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/ ?
How can you make pages that can be sorted/filtered dynamically on user-request?
How can you make a page with user-generated change requests send out an e-mail 
to reviewers for approval?
...


BR,
Nikolaus