After successfully moving this blog to Zola, doubts got suppressed and I couldn't resist porting the GNOME Release Notes too. The Proof The blog port worked better than expected. Fighting CI github action was where most enthusiasm was lost. The real test though was whether Zola could handle a site way more important than my little blog — one hosting release notes for GNOME. What Changed The main work was porting the templates from Liquid to Tera, the same exercise as the blog. That included structural change to shift releases from Jekyll pages to proper Zola posts. This enabled two things that weren't possible before: RSS feed — With releases as posts, generating a feed is native. Something I was planning to do in the Jekyll world … but there were roadblocks. The archive — Old release notes going back to GNOME 2.x have been properly ported over. They're now part of the navigable archive instead of lost to the ages. I'm afraid it's quite a cringe town if you hold nostalgic ideas how…
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