openSUSE admin

Let me answer with some questions:

• what is "our department"? ;-) (I'd guess QA, and at the same time have to point out that the QA on your request wasn't too good ;-)
• do you already have some content? (Please answer "yes" ;-) - I'm not a big fan of setting up an empty subdomain that might or might not get content later. One or two articles are a good starting point.)
• which subdomain do you want? (You mentioned quality.o.o as an example, doesn't sound too bad)

On the technical side, I'd recommend to use Jekyll (assuming it fits what you want to do, but since yast.o.o also uses Jekyll, it likely will fit). This has the advantage that we'll just need to add another github repo and subdomain to our server that already handles several jekyll-based pages - and that also means that the setup will be quite fast.

• Linux Systems - Quality Engineering
• Yes, we have lots of content to aggregate there
• quality.opensuse.org sounds awesome :)

Most probably we are going to use Hugo, what is not very different from Jekyll

Ah, Quality Engineering, so my guess wasn't too bad ;-)

It would make things much easier if you use Jekyll:

• We already have a working setup (salt, cronjobs, scripts etc.) for hosting and rendering Jekyll pages. Adding another Jekyll site to our server can be done in 5 minutes :-) (adding 3 lines to our salt code)
• OTOH, even if Hugo is similar, it will cause much more work for us - which also means it takes much longer to get your site online.

So - unless you have a very good reason to use Hugo, please use Jekyll.

BTW: If you want to give your new site the openSUSE look and feel (like news.o.o and planet.o.o), you can use https://github.com/opensuse/jekyll-theme.git - just add gem 'jekyll-theme-opensuse', :git => 'https://github.com/opensuse/jekyll-theme.git' to your Gemfile.

Now the only missing part is a link to your github repo that hopefully contains your Jekyll ;-)

We have a community in our department with 6-8 active people who mostly use Hugo.

But now I am a bit confused. I really do appreciate your kind offer to set up and render our site. But we are happy to take care of all of it. You really should not take more load or responsibility because of us. All I am asking for is a subdomain and we can take care the rest.

Part of my motivation here is that we build a real community around our own stuff. We should learn how to take care of our own content and contribute to openSUSE infrastructure work. Maybe we can cultivate few more engineers who are going to to contribute to other works too.

bzoltan1 wrote:

We have a community in our department with 6-8 active people who all use Hugo. Nobody I know in our department uses Jekyll.

I use Jekyll.

Can we agree that there's no plan to require a particular setup for blogs included here? And also, I am happy to look into the CI/tooling used to build the "planet", overviews, links to projects and whatever resources we add there. We just need a domain to make this happen, the details are still being fleshed out.

I probably thought further than your request and somehow implied that you also want/need a place to host your blog ;-)
And with thinking about hosting it in the openSUSE infrastructure, recommending Jekyll was obvious because we already have a working setup for it.
(Sorry if that caused confusion!)

Of couse giving you "just" the subdomain (basically the DNS entry) and telling you "enjoy doing the setup yourself" is also fine ;-) And of course you can choose whatever software you want for that.

Since you asked about the Jekyll tooling:

• the jekyll files of planet.o.o and news.o.o are public on https://github.com/openSUSE/planet-o-o/ and https://github.com/openSUSE/news-o-o/
• our tooling (script etc.) is in the heroes salt repo, which we'll make public soon[tm]. If you are in a hurry, tell me, and I'll send you a tarball.

Hehe, right. I appreciate the offer. Somehow there was also people in chat suddenly talking about "please change all your tooling" and I wanted to be sure these are separate points :-D

I've seen the planet-o-o code, although the news-o-o is news to me (no pun intended), will check it out. I've been playing with a little rust snippet to do something similar but which can pull in more metadata. I think from the conversations we've had we want categories and tags and such to be in the planet as well. Would be cool to compare notes on that, not sure if you had plans there.

No rush in any case, we're still figuring out details like theming, what blogs to include, other resources.