Pmbootstrap: Project website

[kskarthik]

Deploy a website postmarketos.github.io so that it serves as main project site. People would find it easy in search results. Jekyll would be good or your homebaked makefile cms 😀

[dzervas]

:+1:

[ollieparanoid]

I think a landing page (one index.html without any subpages) would be enough, which quickly shows a photo, the relevant information and most important links:

• Introduction
• /r/postmarketOS
• GitHub
• Wiki

This could be done quickly, and wouldn't be much effort to maintain. I'd work on something like that the next few days. Opinions on that?

[dzervas]

I'll work on it tonight. I'll let you know otherwise.

[kskarthik]

Yes, one page is enough. Also, link to ported devices can be added.

[dzervas]

@ollieparanoid can you fork it? I can't create the page, as it has to be the same username. I copied most of your first post and I altered it a bit to be more project-specific (and not blog-specific). Do you like it?

[ollieparanoid]

Thank you for your effort. But this is not quite what I had in mind.

That initial blog post I wrote is my idea of how it should be, and what motivates me. But this is not what we can reach in the these early days of development, if we can reach it at all. So I'd really not want to duplicate contents (even if partially) of that post, but make a small landing page instead, that lists the important links (including a link to that full introduction post, for people who want to read it).

"The relevant information", as I said above, was kind of vague - sorry for that. What I meant was a one-liner, like used in the GitHub Repo already:

Touch-optimized, pre-configured Alpine Linux with own packages, that can be installed on smartphones. (Not usable for most people yet!)

Also... what's the benefit of using Jekyll for such a simple landing page? I feel that it would be simpler without Jekyll - just a plain index.html. But convince me otherwise, if you want to.

(Please write it as postmarketOS, with a lowercase p. I don't mind that much in normal written conversations, but it is kind of important on an official website.)

So please don't get me wrong, I appreciate that you have stepped up and contributed this!
Do you want to give it another try?

[dzervas]

Oh, I understand.

I'll give it another try!

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Thank you for your effort. But this is not quite what I had in mind.

That initial blog post I wrote is my idea of how it should be, and what motivates me. But this is not what we can reach in the these early days of development, if we can reach it at all. So I'd really not want to duplicate contents (even if partially) of that post, but make a small landing page instead, that lists the important links (including a link to that full introduction post, for people who want to read it).

"The relevant information", as I said above, was kind of vague - sorry for that. What I meant was a one-liner, like used in the GitHub Repo already:

Touch-optimized, pre-configured Alpine Linux with own packages, that can be installed on smartphones. (Not usable for most people yet!)

Also... what's the benefit of using Jekyll for such a simple landing page? I feel that it would be simpler without Jekyll - just a plain index.html. But convince me otherwise, if you want to.

So please don't get me wrong, I appreciate that you have stepped up and contributed this!
Do you want to give it another try?

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[kskarthik]

A blog to announce status of project needs Jekyll. However, its your choice

[ollieparanoid]

I'd rather have announcements made in /r/postmarketOS - because then everyone can post and we don't need to set up permissions first.

[dhruvkar]

I've squatted on the domains postmarketos.com & postmarketos.org for now. Will transfer to @ollieparanoid whenever.

@dzervas What about hosting an index.html on netlify.com? Netlify just pulls from a Github repository and is free. No jekyll or other ssg is necessary and it doesn't limit your naming convention like Github does.

[dzervas]

Guys I'm caught up in a tight schedule so I can't make it right now (and I'm also really hyped to get n5 to work).

I'm sorry but can someone else do it?

[dhruvkar]

I'll do it. Still waiting for my old android phone 👍

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Guys I'm caught up in a tight schedule so I can't make it right now (and
I'm also really hyped to get n5 to work).

I'm sorry but can someone else do it?

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[ollieparanoid]

@dzervas: No problem, we all do this in our free time - and @dhruvkar: thanks for helping out!

[kskarthik]

@dhruvkar are you working ?

[dhruvkar]

sorry, next three days I'll have something.

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@dhruvkar https://github.com/dhruvkar are you working ?

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[kskarthik]

Meanwhile, I will also try :)

[kskarthik]

I made the site https://rawgit.com/kskarthik/website-source/master/index.html

[ollieparanoid]

This is pretty much what I imagined, thanks a lot! What do you guys say?

[PabloCastellano]

I really like its simple design

[kskarthik]

Also Tor friendly :wink:

[ollieparanoid]

It's live now: https://postmarketos.github.io
If someone wants to change something, simply make a PR.

[dhruvkar]

Site is also live (via a fork on netlify) at https://www.postmarketos.org/

[ollieparanoid]

Cool! Will the fork get updated automatically, when something gets changed?

[dhruvkar]

I'm using https://github.com/1egoman/backstroke#how-it-works to inform me of changes to the repo, so it's a one-click, but manual process to update the fork.

[ollieparanoid]

@dhruvkar: Could you push it to postmarketos.org? Thanks!

[dhruvkar]

@ollieparanoid done

[ollieparanoid]

...and again please :)

[kskarthik]

@ollieparanoid postmarketos.github.io or postmarketos.org which is official? If the latter one is yes, then we can rename repo to website-source or something like that so that visitors won't confuse with two domains hosting the same content

[ollieparanoid]

postmarketos.org is the shorter domain, and it is a mirror of postmarketos.github.io. So if it is in snyc, it is "official" as well. We can't rename the repository, or hosting on GitHub won't work.

[dhruvkar]

@ollieparanoid done again 👍

[bhush9]

@ollieparanoid you can however put CNAME file in the repo of postmarketos.github.io so you don't have to manually sync or mirror the other website..

[ollieparanoid]

@bhush9: As I understand, https:// will throw a warning then, which isn't ideal either. (Or am I misinformed here?). Thanks for the idea!

[kskarthik]

Netlify solves https:// problem with github custom domains & also builds, updates the site whenever there is new commit pushed.

[dhruvkar]

yup, which is what we're using right now.

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Netlify solves https:// problem with github custom domains & also builds,
updates the site whenever there is new commit pushed.

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[kskarthik]

Good! In that case we necessarily don't need the github subdomain active....

[ollieparanoid]

@dhruvkar, could you pull the source again (maybe automatize this?) (#268)
Thanks!

[dhruvkar]

@ollieparanoid pulled & merged. I'll look into a way to automate it further.

[ollieparanoid]

@dhruvkar: could you update it again? Also can I help with automatizing this? Seems like Netlify has a webhook we could call from GitHub on new pushes, would that work?
https://www.netlify.com/docs/webhooks/

EDIT: Heads up, next weekend the 100 days of postmarketOS blog post would be in order. It would be really nice if we could get the hook functional until then (or switch the host in case that does not work, maybe to the server which also hosts the wiki).

[dhruvkar]

@ollieparanoid I've regenerated the site. If you have the energy/time please go for it!
These last two months have been overly busy, I apologize.

[ollieparanoid]

No problem, this is a free time project and that you set up the hosting in the first place and registered the domain has already helped a lot! Thanks for regenerating the page.

@MartijnBraam: so I guess it would make sense, if we moved the homepage to the same server as wiki.postmarketos.org, so we can re-generate it automatically with a push-hook. Could we work on that together? And if so, could you please open up a new issue so we can discuss it there with everyone? This one is long enough and it is a different topic after all. Thanks!

[MartijnBraam]

Opened issue about hosting migration on https://github.com/postmarketOS/postmarketos.github.io/issues/19