Bug#1145065: RFP: zensical -- A modern static site generator by the Material for MkDocs team

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected]

* Package name    : zensical
  Version         : 0.0.57
  Upstream Contact: https://github.com/zensical
* URL             : https://github.com/zensical/zensical
* License         : MIT
  Programming Lang: Rust
  Description     : A modern static site generator by the Material for MkDocs team

Zensical is a modern static site generator designed to simplify building
and maintaining project documentation. It's built by the creators of
Material for MkDocs and shares the same core design principles and
philosophy – batteries included, easy to use, with powerful
customization options

Write your documentation in Markdown and create a professional static
site for your Open Source or commercial project in minutes – searchable,
customizable, more than 60 languages, for all devices.

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This is a rewrite of mkdocs (already in Debian) with parts of rust,
which aims to retain some backwards compatibility.

This is important because mkdocs 2.0 breaks a lot of plugins and old
design. A few of the reasoning is available upstream in:

https://mail.zensical.org/monthly/2026/02/
https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/blog/2024/08/19/how-were-transforming-material-for-mkdocs/

It should be relatively similar to mkdocs, but a few features are still
missing, see:

https://zensical.org/compatibility/

Right now, the biggest missing features are:

- blog
- social cards
- tag lists
- revisioning

Third-party plugins are also not necessarily supported yet.