Hi Carsten, On Sun, 21 Apr 2019 11:42:59 +0200 Carsten Schoenert <c.schoen...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi again, > > (PS: No need to address directly, I'm subscribed to the list as well.) > > Am 21.04.19 um 11:07 schrieb Shlomi Fish: > ... > >> Hopefully most of a transition work could be automated, otherwise I > >> guess it's quite impossible to do this manually. > >> > > > > One can write a translator tool and do a before-vs-after diff to make sure > > no regressions were introduced. > > yes, we would need a real good QS to ensure nothing is broken > afterwards. Diff'ing the output of both systems will show any serious > problems if happen. What is "QS"? > > >> If you can take a closer look into a migration to the new format and can > >> come up with a way to walk we will find time to work on this more > >> seriously. Feel free to speak up anytime in case you have suggestion or > >> even also questions! > >> > > > > Which "the" new format? My port to TT2 was for > > https://github.com/shlomif/perl-begin and partly done because I wanted it to > > remain based on perl because perl-begin is about perl. But there are many > > other https://staticsitegenerators.net/ that can be used for the Debian > > site, some of which may be even faster. > > I think changing the generating system is really out of scope, at least > I see no real reason to change to something shiny new which will require > a lot of individual adjustments, which will take a lot of time and by > this a lot of resources (we don't have), to archive the same output in > the end. well, see https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-tech-diary/blob/master/static-site-generators--despair.md about ssgens. Thing is my template toolkit based process accepts incompatible input to the wml-based one which it replaced for p-begin, while producing similar results (at a better speed). One can opt to use a different preprocessor / template system / etc. as well. > > What I wanted to say was simple that we appreciate any help to improve > the build process. Steve has made a lot of things in the near past that > have speed up the build time of the Debian website massively. > If possible you should think about traveling to a MiniDebConf where we > could meet us. It's really easier and effective to talk about such > topics face to face. But I'm not the right person to talk about Perl and > the internals of it. > > O.k., we will see whats possible and what will happen. > OK. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Beginners Site for the Vim text editor - http://vim.begin-site.org/ “God is dead.” — Nietzsche “Nietzsche is dead.” — God “Nietzsche is God.” — dead (via fortune-mod) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .
