Re: Internationalization on the new site

On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Florent Daigniere <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-11-01 at 01:05 -0700, Dan Roberts wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Florent Daigniere
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2016-10-30 at 09:37 -0700, Dan Roberts wrote:
> > > > At this point I consider the hosting platform to a blocker for
> > > > completing the website redesign.
> > >
> > >
> > > You shouldn't.
> >
> > I'm a bit concerned that i18n support will be a significant chunk of
> > work, and it depends on this decision.
> >
>
> I went ahead and have rolled out cloudflare on an under-used
> subdomain... for us to test the setup. That's a free mitm-as-a-service
> that was relatively effort-less to setup... and that will take care of
> maintaining our certificates.
>
> Try it out:
> https://javadoc.freenetproject.org/
> it's served from https://github.com/freenet/javadoc/
>
>
> > > > Shall I proceed for the moment assuming that we're using github
> > > > pages?
> > >
> > >
> > > Yes; We might put something in front, but that's irrelevant... we
> > > will
> > > proxy the content if need be.
> > >
> > > > If we abandon github pages, that frees me to identify and select a
> > > > more i18n friendly site generator, so I haven't put much more work
> > > > into the Jekyll version. At present the Jekyll version's English
> > > > translation is effectively complete, however I do think some
> > > content
> > > > curation will be necessary to better fit the new format.
> > >
> > >
> > > Can you push what you have so far somewhere?
> > >
> > > Florent
> >
> > Sure, I had meant to do this a while ago:
> >
> > https://ademan-laptop.github.io/freenet-website-redesign
> >
> > (I don't allow my travel laptop to push to my primary github account)
> >
> > There are a couple of known issues with the above link, and possibly a
> > few lurking issues due to different paths on github. I can resolve the
> > low hanging fruit tomorrow, and a couple of larger issues which I'll
> > be hacking on this week (paypal form, footer).
> >
>
>
> Do you have any plan to handle the bank-balance stuff? Or is that gone
> in the new design?


I'm doing my best to avoid any "design" decisions, so I had no plan to
include the bank balance, but it definitely has value.


>
> > WRT to Hugo, Hugo looks fine to me, but it doesn't appear to be a
> > significant improvement for i18n support over Jekyll (I know you had
> > additional reasons for preferring it). If we're Ok with whole page
> > translations for content, however, I think I may as well proceed with
> > i18n on Jekyll for the moment.
> >
>
>
> I'm fine with Jekyll as long as we get github to run it for us (ie: that
> you manage to use it without any additional plugin/specific
> configuration).


Hrm, I had assumed we were removing the github restrictions if we were
considering Hugo. If we're retaining github restrictions there's not much
in Jekyll's favor besides inertia (there is a bit of inertia I suppose) and
relative popularity.


>
> > We need to decide what to do with regards to the social media links
> > peppered throughout the design. Stripping them leaves the header and
> > footer looking fairly barren, and I think there may be some value in
> > having some extra social media presence (even if it's little more than
> > a link back to freenetproject.org ).
> >
>
>
> I will defer to those that know better :)


> Florent
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