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  • From: Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>
  • To: Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Happy New Year!
  • Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 18:03:03 -0300

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 22:22:37 +0300
Vlad Glagolev <stealth AT tiberian.ru> wrote:
> The website of a distro, especially such complex, is not a blog and is
> not a news list. It isn't a 3-pages homesite with several updates
> once a year as well.
>
> It's a complex (in structure -- think of many sections, subsections
> and syntax and view of >500 pages) thing that is needed to be
> structured properly. Wiki engine (especially one that conforms any
> good standard -- so it'll be easy to migrate to any other wiki if
> needed) provides a lot of useful features like automatic linking,
> indexes, menu generation, orphaned and wanted pages, backlinks and so
> on. And it is still a consistent site with single auth
> (captcha-supported as well), pages' preview, search and history.
>
> And it's always easy to support something that is a standard. If some
> product is becoming dead -- no problem to migrate to something that is
> actively developed and conforms the same standard.

I'm not talking about editing html by hand...

There are many powerful static site generators, so that's not an
excuse, and I really don't mind hacking any of them to fit our needs.

Though not my favorite, ikiwiki can render about any content, and if
it doesn't do something, it's pretty easy to write a back-end.

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