Website for Terminator

[lazyfrosch]

As the old website https://gnometerminator.blogspot.com/ is stale and inaccessible for us, I want to host a simple website using github pages.

URL: gnome-terminator.github.io

Ideas:

• Simple layout
• Short summary
• Some screenshots, also to be used with AppStream
• Links and references to GitHub

Any other ideas?

[lazyfrosch]

You can join gitter for chat: gitter.im/gnome-terminator/community

[vishhvak]

I think the ideas are pretty solid for starters. A blog section may be a good idea for communication, but not sure what the right way to implement it would be (i.e do we go full-stack or stick to a static website for the blog).

Are we using our own CSS and Vanilla JS? or are we sticking to a framework (React/Vue for JS, Bulma/Bootstrap for CSS?). When and where do we start?

[muru]

gnome-terminator.github.io would necessarily have to be from the repository gnome-terminator/gnome-terminator.github.io. So, perhaps the first step would be to just create such a repository so we can send pull requests there?

A simple Jekyll/Markdown site using one of the pre-defined Github Pages themes might be good starting point. Example: https://muru.github.io/terminator/ generated from https://github.com/muru/terminator (with the inital contents mostly copied from the README and the old Terminator blog.

[FernandoBasso]

Yeah, Jekyll and Markdown is what I would go with.

I believe we should use our own CSS so we don't have an extra burden of keeping upgrading and potentially having to fix CSS problems as versions change (it is enough maintaining Jekyll updates, in my opinion).

We should also stay away from using more complicated front-end setups for this case. Jekyll can even provide i18n (using some very simple trickery) if we ever need it. Of course, if the need arises, we can add React/Vue/whatever o the site later on.

When and where do we start?

I think someone that can do admin stuff on the repo should create the github pages repo with a simple placeholder readme so we can clone and start working.

[lazyfrosch]

I will create the repo in a moment.

A blog won't be necessary at the start, I'd prefer users to watch released on GitHub, and have proper release info there.

[lazyfrosch]

https://github.com/gnome-terminator/gnome-terminator.github.io

https://gnome-terminator.github.io/

[lazyfrosch]

Please coordinate here, simple website with Jekyll, no magic JS framework please :)

[mattrose]

@lazyfrosch how attached are you to the pages having HTML content rather than markdown? Would it be OK if I started out by replacing the html with markdown?