GSoC 2019 Project Idea

[PARTH PATIL]

Hey, I had a project idea for GSoC.

I wanted to make a tool which will help to port static projects like Jekyll to Django directly.

I am still thinking about the details of the idea.

But I want to know:

• is this idea feasible/useful?
  
• Does there already exist a similar tool for this?
• Is this a good idea for GSoC?

I got this idea last year when I was working on my club website which was written using Jekyll and I had to port it to Django framework since it was going to be hosted on our college server which had Django backend.

The problem was we constantly had to update the website with post, so I was just left with the option to rewrite all the code natively in Django. That's why I thought of making a tool which will take a Jekyll project and convert it to Django app, with proper views and models etc.

 

[Carlton Gibson]

Hi Parth. 

I'm guessing this would be out of scope for Django: it's sounds like the sort of functionality that we prefer to live in third-party apps, rather than in Django itself. 

(It sounds like a good enough idea — there are plenty of Jekyll, or other static, sites out there, but just not something for core.) 

As I just posted elsewhere, I'm looking to work on the GSoC stuff over the next couple of weeks. 

Kind Regards,

Carlton

[PARTH PATIL]

Hey Carlton,

Thanks for your feedback.

I would try to think of something which is more inclined towards core functionality of Django :)