Is webby in active development?

[hish]

I don't see much activity on the lists nor lighthouse bug tracking.
And the github commit shows last commit was in 2009! https://github.com/TwP/webby

So my question is, how active is webby? Should we be really using it
as our tool for website generation when it doesn't appear to be in
active development?

Has everyone moved to other, more active tools like Jekyll? Or do you
consider webby complete and no need for more 'feature bloat' and
development?

thanks,
Hisham

[Tim Pease]

Webby is no longer under active development. It was a useful project; however, I have not been actively using it in the past two years.

As similar replacement would be nanoc:

http://nanoc.stoneship.org/
https://github.com/ddfreyne/nanoc

Denis Defreyne and I have corresponded on and off regarding static site generation. Webby is deeply inspired by nanoc. Give it a look and see if it meets your needs.

Blessings,
TwP

[Hisham A.]

Thanks, that's good to know. I'll checkout nanoc then. 

Too bad though, our site is already based on webby, and it is great, but I guess we'll have to migrate to nanoc at some point.

Hisham

[Tim Pease]

On Jul 4, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Hisham A. wrote:

> Thanks, that's good to know. I'll checkout nanoc then.
>
> Too bad though, our site is already based on webby, and it is great, but I
> guess we'll have to migrate to nanoc at some point.
>

It's never easy admitting when you no longer have time to work on an open source project. Webby was great for a while ... in some ways it renewed the spark in the whole Ruby "static website" tools area.

Blessings,
TwP

[Randy Parker]

nanoc seems half as popular as Jekyll according to the Ruby-Toolbox, but it's intent is more like webby:

http://starrhorne.com/posts/howto_build_a_blog_with_nanoc/

[Scott LaBounty]

I haven't used Jekyll, but I do enjoy nanoc quite a bit and the community is quite nice.

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Randy Parker <randy.j...@gmail.com> wrote:

nanoc seems half as popular as Jekyll according to the Ruby-Toolbox, but it's intent is more like webby:

http://starrhorne.com/posts/howto_build_a_blog_with_nanoc/

--
Scott
http://steamcode.blogspot.com/

[Hisham A.]

Quick question: Why was the webby project started in the first place, when nanoc was around? What was missing in nanoc that webby filled? What about nanoc today, does it have all that webby offers?

Hisham