Oak is a simple static-blog generator. The goal is to have a blog backed up by a (D)VCS and that the blog itself is all made up by static content.
Oak is already usable but lot of things are still left: testing, some things still need to be reviewed, more layouts will be nice, ...
The design principles are:
- all the blog site is made up of static content, no hole for SQL-injection or similar,
- version controled content, achieved now with git (but you're free to use whatever system you want),
- you can write your posts with your favorite $EDITOR,
- easy syntax for the posts contents, using Markdown.
The implementation of oak is done around a few python classes and libs.
There is the main package oak which is the responsible of
generating the blog's content and of initializing the blog
path structure.
We're using external python libraries such as Jinja2 for the
templates and python-markdown for parsing the raw post files.
Git is used to version the blog contents and the whole set of folders that are involved in the process. But this is not managed by Oak, so you're free to use other VC system or none at all.
Initially, there is one git repo (let's call it Hub) living in the server which will serve the blog. We have to clone it somewhere else in the server (will call it Live). Live will pull from Hub whenever a change occurs in Hub, so new content gets updated in the Live clone. One of the folders of the repository is the folder that holds the public content, let's assume it's called site/. That folder is the one which the webserver has to publish. The Live pulls are automatically done via git hooks.
Why don't use the Live clone directly? Using the Hub repository will allow us to make as many clones as we want, and from any of that clones we will be able to push new content to the blog.
- Secure
- Lightweight
- Easy to write syntax: Markdown
- Code highlighting: thanks to Pygments
- Small dependency set: just Git, Markdown, Jinja2, Pygments and YAML
If you want to collaborate with the oak development you can get in touch with us in the #oakblog channel at irc.freenode.org.
There is also a mailing list at https://llistes.tenak.net/listinfo/oak where you can ask your questions or report bugs.