The website for discovering and downloading the Ubuntu MATE operating system.
Powered by Nikola - a static page generator.
The website is only in English at the moment. There is currently no way for translators yet, although Nikola has support for multilingual sites.
First, install Nikola into an isolated Python environment, called a
virtualenv. This is independent from the system's installation of Python.
source ~/Snakepit/nikola/bin/activate
You know when the Nikola environment is activated because (nikola) will be
added to the bash prompt.
mkdir ~/Websites
cd ~/Websites
git clone [email protected]:ubuntu-mate/ubuntu-mate.org.git
The first build will take a while. Subsequent builds are much faster.
cd ~/Websites/ubuntu-mate.org
nikola build
Nikola has a built in webserver, the serves the currently built site on port 8000.
cd ~/Websites/ubuntu-mate.org
nikola serve
Now point you web browser at localhost:8000 to test. CTRL+C to stop serving.
If you need to clean the Nikola build of the site do this following.
nikola clean
You'll need to build the site again now.
The site is re-deployed on every commit via Travis CI. However, it a new Ubuntu MATE release is happening then the download page needs updating too.
The download page is dynamic client-side, but is statically generated using these resouces.
- Download information is stored in
files/assets/downloads.json - The main presentation is taken from
/pages/download.mdand will need Alpha, Beta labels etc updating. - The LESS and CSS configuration is stored in
/themes/United/less/download.less - The Javascript logic is in
files/assets/js/downloads.js
When the torrents are published as part of the iso release run generate-magnet-urls.sh
for each release architecture, for instance:
./scripts/helpers/generate-magnet-urls.sh http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/16.04.3/release/ubuntu-mate-16.04.3-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
Copy and paste the output to files/assets/downloads.json under the respective magnet-uri key.