Re: moving blog posts to pypy.org

On 2/3/21 12:54 AM, Matti Picus wrote:
>
> I imported the blog posts and comments to pypy/pypy.org on the 
> blogposts branch. If you want a preview, you can update to the branch, 
> and run "make build" which should create a nikola virtualenv, install 
> the sidebar plugin, build the site, and put a sidebar into the blog 
> post pages.
>
>
> The blogspot site served us well for 13 years, it is time to move on.
>
> The operative change will be that from now on blog posts become a 
> merge request to the pypy.org repo, using the nikola workflow:
>
> - nikola new_post <additional arguments, --help for more info>
>
> - edit the post in RST or markdown or jupyter notebook or ...
>
> - add tags and a blurb
>
> - merge it to default
>
>
> The repo has a CI job to build and push the site, so it is no longer 
> necessary to render locally and commit the pages to /public, they will 
> be rebuilt on a merge.
>
>
> We may want to move this repo to github to get a nice preview in 
> github pages, and to use the utterances system for comments based on 
> github issues.
>
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Matti
>

I opened a repo on https://github.com/pypy/pypy.org. It now completes 
the points at the end of my mail: preview for PRs via netlify, uses 
utterances for new blog posts. Please take a look at the deploy preview 
https://keen-mestorf-442210.netlify.app, especially the new Blog 
dropdown and links.


Matti