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

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Author: u
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To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor, The Tails public development discussion list
CC: Birger Schacht
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Fwd: Converting ikiwiki to hugo
Hi!

(I'm putting the author of the blog post in Cc:.)

On 21.11.19 21:44, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 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 with hugo and its reliance on an outdated and unmaintained version of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 this link! I don't use Hugo myself, and (I personally would
opt for another tool) we'd always need such decisions to be made
collectively anyway :)

- u.