[SeasonOfDocs] Website for TheGoodDocsProject

[Sanket Totewar]

Love the discussion here. I agree that we could focus on the content first
and have a static website instead of using a CMS.
Looking forward to what domain names we come up with. :)

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 6:33 AM Erin McKean <emckean at google.com> wrote:

> Another -1 to a CMS or WordPress, mostly for security reasons. There's a
> big risk of project orphaning with anything that needs more than a Github
> account to access.
>
> Slightly +1 to Netlify only because I would like to use the Docsy project
> to create a site for the GDP. :) I set one up in <30 minutes as a demo two
> weeks ago (and most of that time was figuring out Google-internal access
> issues for my virtual dev env ...)
>
> As for domain names -- can we do a .dev TLD? I see a lot of projects that
> are dev-focused going that way, and it's a nice way to skirt the whole
> .com/.org issue for OS projects. Full disclosure: Google runs .dev, I can
> see if I can get the domain that way.
>
> I am agnostic about whether we do WtD or stand-alone, I think there are
> pros and cons either way, but in any case we could sub-project or mirror
> the repo?
>
> I apologize in advance as I am catching up on a number of GDP threads
> after being out last week and so your inboxes might suddenly see a deluge
> of input from me. :)
>
> Erin
>
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> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 12:13 AM matteo <matteo.ghetta at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I also think that keeping it as simple as possible should be one of the
>> aim of the project.
>>
>> Just for information, if (only if) considering a CMS than Grav
>> (https://getgrav.org/) is a good alternative, no installation needed,
>> lots of functions, etc.
>>
>> Personally I'm -1 to a CMS: even if it has a lots of features that a
>> static website does not have, the framework is more complex and in a
>> long term view it is definitely more difficult to maintain.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Matteo
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