Apache Website Generation with Pelican
summary
Apache migrates its main site off the deprecated CMS by building a Pelican + Python pipeline that uses GitHub‑flavored Markdown, custom plugins (gen_id) for element IDs, permalinks and iframe/script passthrough, and a data plugin that pulls Whimsy JSON to populate featured projects and counts. Builds run on build bots or locally via Docker, support multiple feature-branch staging domains, run hourly to rotate three featured projects, and handle large sites by splitting 70–80k files into branches with a minimum page count safety and an asf ammo build wrapper.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:33Dave Fisher
- 3:46Languages and Tools
- 15:13GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM)
- 18:53Genio - Content Manipulation
- 27:20Data Model
- 29:58Settings
- 32:48Local Development
- 36:20Examples
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