Support for GitLab Pages

[eduardoboucas]

Anyone using GitLab Pages that would be interested in using Staticman?

[DirtyF]

cc/ @andrewbanchich ?

[andrewbanchich]

Thanks for the mention! This looks amazing! I will definitely try it out soon, probably this weekend.

[eduardoboucas]

(To be clear, only GitHub is supported at the moment. The issue is to gauge the interest in adding support for GitLab and ideally find someone to help make it happen.)

[andrewbanchich]

@eduardoboucas Ah, okay. I would definitely be interested. GitLab is amazing and has been blowing past GitHub in most ways from what I can tell. I know several others who feel the same way. I actually just use GitLab and mirror my repos to GitHub.

[rpodcast]

I have my site's code hosted on GitLab and it'd be great to use staticman with it!

[sukiletxe]

I don't have a static site yet, but I'd love to use Staticman and Gitlab with it, especially since Gitlab supports any static site generator for doing continuous deployment.

[mdxprograms]

Agreed. I switched to gitlab and would love to continue this.

[eduardoboucas]

Thanks for the feedback, y'all.

This won't be a quick job, as a lot of the codebase was made to use the GitHub API, which will need to be reworked to support GitLab as well. I'll be on the lookout for someone that wishes to chip in, otherwise I'll (slowly) work on it whenever I get a chance.

[zongren]

+1
currently using gitlab pages(due to github pages block baidu spider)

[zongren]

using github webhooks and gitlab triggers make it work for gitlab pages
see zongren/comment and my blog

[zburgermeiszter]

For this we should add the git provider domain to the request as a path element.
so it would look like /v3/entry/<github|gitlab>/<vendor>/<repo>/<branch>/<configKey>

But because one can have it's own GitLab on it's own domain, we should also handle that.
And GitLab Pages are now available on GitLab Community Edition

Required Node libs for future reference:
gitlab
gitlab-webhook

[zburgermeiszter]

What do you think @eduardoboucas?

[eduardoboucas]

The first step in making this work will be to decouple all the logic that interacts with GitHub, creating a generic storage class that can then be plugged in to GitHub or GitLab. This will be quite a substantial amount of work.

Regarding the endpoint, I think we're adding too many levels to the URL. We either rename entry to github and gitlab in v3, or we add a options[repo] field that contains the full URL to the repository, which would also address the point you made about GitLab instances running on custom domains (which also stands for GitHub Enterprise).

I definitely want to get this done, but I'd rather get some of the low-hanging fruit out of the way first (like #42) before attempting to build this.