[ZWeb] volunteer for transforming ReST + templates into HTML

[Martijn Faassen]

Darryl Cousins wrote:
[snip]
> 
> index.html
> - docs/
> ----index.html
> ----other-docs.html
> - foo/
> ----index.html
> ----other-foo-docs.html
> - other-home-directory-docs.html
> 
> Thats the structure we are aiming at?

That's the generated structure. Something like:

foo.txt
bar.txt
baz
   index.txt
   qux.txt
hoi
   index.txt
dag.txt

would become:

foo.html
bar.html
baz
    index.html
    qux.html
hoi
    index.html
dag.html

Possibly ripping off the .html everywhere to turn it into:

foo
bar
baz
   index
   qux
hoi
   index
dag

>>> 2. How does 'upload to zope.org' work?
>> As to the ReST, I want to start maintaining that in the svn.zope.org 
>> repository.
> 
> Yup. Some script could be run to synchronize the different components:
> 
> rest.svn.zope.org -> zf.www.rest --> zf.tfws.org.nz --> [wget?] -->
> zope.org
> 
> Worst of the worse, we keep in touch and I syncronise it manually. Not a
> big job.

not sure what these components all do, but some script that checkso ut 
the rest from svn.zope.org, runs it through your generator, and uploads 
the HTML and images up onto zope.org.

> And later, do it all with zope3   :-D  

Yeah, Zope 3 or whatever. I'm trying to avoid us from geeking out on the 
tech and focusing on the immediate tasks. :)

>> I'm trying to figure this out. On the near term, we may just upload all 
>> of this into a plain zope on zope.org every time we make changes.
> 
> Unsure of meaning: `a plain zope`. ??

Oh, zope.org has some odd variety of Plone, but normal Zope 2 stuff 
still works in areas, including the /foundation part. So we could simply 
upload them as page templates into the zope. I'd prefer it if it were 
something simpler, but that might be easiest given the infrastructure.

[snip]
>> Finally, eventually this should be converted into CMS content for one 
>> CMS or another. That'll take a lot of hosting infrastructure work to get 
>> done first, though.
> 
> Keep core/source data in directory/restfile then anything is possible.
> Keep it simple. I think that any reasonable cms will be able to import
> the structured data and generate a site using a given template.

Yes, keeping it simple and in ReST for now is my goal. Eventually we may 
need some forms though: "join the foundation!" but we can make do with 
email addresses for now.

Regards,

Martijn