Re: [Tails-dev] Fwd: Converting ikiwiki to hugo

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Author: Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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To: u, The Tails public development discussion list
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Fwd: Converting ikiwiki to hugo
On Thu 2019-11-21 11:49:53 +0100, u wrote:
> Oh my! That's pretty cool:
>
> On Debian Planet: https://bisco.org/notes/converting-ikiwiki-to-hugo/
>
> With regard to the translation platform and the Linguine effort, there
> were a lot of ideas about moving to another static site generator which
> would allow us to have translated markdown files instead of po files for
> example. This blog post seems to be a very good start. And would build
> the Tails website within seconds instead of within 11 minutes :)


That does look cool, but just as a heads-up, i recently found a concern
with hugo and its reliance on an outdated and unmaintained version of
mmark:

https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/5124

Now, it's quite possible that ikiwiki has comparable problems (i haven't
looked into it), so i don't want to suggest that tail making such a
switch would be strictly worse, but from what i can see, hugo does have
a vaguely-bad "smell" to it given this ecosystem stagnation.

thanks for your efforts in thinking about this tooling. the attention
and care taken on Tails documentation is very much appreciated.

    --dkg