Re: Suggestion for new website - GNUstepWeb

[Gregory Casamento]

Hey guys,

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 4:28 AM Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@frithmacdonald.me.uk> wrote:

> On 15 Dec 2022, at 23:08, Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:
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> 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:
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> 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.

Yes, the things that Riccardo mentioned are exactly what I meant.  My thoughts were specifically about the software index, but Hugo's dynamic API comparison idea is also an excellent candidate.   I've recently started playing with GSW locally and it is pretty nice. :)

GC

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