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Investigate and maybe migrate admin #3960

Closed beechnut closed 2 months ago

beechnut commented 3 months ago

The admin folder has a config and index file for Netlify CMS.

First: do we use Netlify for the 18F site? If we do, we should migrate it to maintain functionality. If not, we should add it to #3864.

To the replatform-main branch, we copied the 18f/guides settings, so we should start by diffing that and main's config/index. It seems like index has Jekyll-style settings (e.g. site.baseurl), so we should replace those as necessary.

Also, it looks like the config file defines settings and YAML fields — we've renamed some of them (like image_accessibility is now image_alt).

### Tasks
- [ ] Admin works equivalently to how it did in the Jekyll framework
bpdesigns commented 2 months ago

Is this getting used? Or have netlify or cloud.gov pages exp

caleywoods commented 2 months ago

When I visit https://18f.gsa.gov/admin and try to sign in with GitHub the Cloud.gov pages window just seems to sit there and not do anything. I know we submit new blog entries through GitHub so it seems like the NetlifyCMS is unused. Netlify also stopped developing/supporting it some time ago and transitioned it to DecapCMS so if this effort continues we should start with looking at Decap and potentially other headless CMS solutions.

beechnut commented 2 months ago

The starting question I have with this ticket is: what is happening with this CMS admin config stuff in 18F/guides? Because it's in that repo. If it's getting used, we should keep parity; if not, we can delete it and move on.

jasnakai commented 2 months ago

@beechnut This is my thinking. I am looking into that right now.

beechnut commented 2 months ago

I got some history from @igorkorenfeld, who was the last person to touch the 18F/guides admin files. In short, we don't presently use Netlify CMS, so these files are safe to delete.