Re: Suggestion for new website - GNUstepWeb

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

> On 15 Dec 2022, at 23:08, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Gregory Casamento wrote:
>> Do you think we should have part of the website use WebObjects/GSWeb as a 
>> sort of demo of GNUstep itself?
> 
> as cool as it may sound and as nice it is to "eat your own dogfood" is, two 
> reasons come up to my mind of why not
> 
> 1) simplicity of maintaining a static website [*]: it is just easy to develop 
> it locally, test it... no need for a webserver. This is how I maintain(ed) 
> the GS website until its current fate. Very convenient and always available 
> "on the go" where I had a CVS checkout
> 2) independency on the infrastructure. Stati webpages can be hosted anywhere, 
> we could also just use a standard hosting service and it would fit.
> 
> So I would keep "www.gnustep.org" static, but we could have a subdomain 
> dedicated to it. Like wiki.gnustep.org runs on wiki software, we could have a 
> part running on GSWeb.
> 
> Some candidates come to my mind:
> 
> 1)  dynamic feature comparison, dynamic documentation or things like that 
> (e.g. the thing Hugo was thinking)
> 2) rewriting software index into GSWeb
> 
> similar things like that, which could be in subdomains on other servers and 
> if they go down, they wouldn't affect the "main" static website, which would 
> be www and ftp.
> 
> Just my two cents.

That sounds very reasonable to me.
Your elaboration is exactly what I interpreted Greg's suggestion of 'parts of 
the website' as meaning, and your suggestion of which specific mparts would 
make sense is good.