Talaria 0.2.0

Talaria, a geek-friendly content management system

Talaria is a tiny but ambitious project which aims to create lightweight, elegant, easy to extend geek-friendly content management system. Primary goal of the project is to offer people an easy way to manage simple hierarchical trees of HTML-documents, such as web-sites, documentation, etc.

Goals

• Content should be easy modifiable with standard geek-friendly tools, such as command-line utilities and text editors.

• Content should be easy modifiable with software (from python, shell scripts or even from C-code) as well.

• API should be easy to understand and should afford convenient way to extend Talaria abilities with minimal effort from the user.

• Page layouts should be customizable and the customization should not require any significant effort.

Features and design decisions

• Manage hierarchical structure of static web pages.

• Versioned storage with ability to restore content to any arbitrary version in history.

• Work as a mercurial extension.

• Incremental updates, change tracking. Updates in templates, source and media files involve rebuilding of implicated pages only.

• Markdown and plain HTML support.

• Customizable Jinja2 templates.

• Customizable and inheritable page settings.

Additional resources

• Project documentation

• Sample project layout