Web browsing the Mobile broadband provider info database

[Guido Günther]

Hi Aleksander,
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 09:51:53PM +0100, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> Hey Thomas and NM community,
> 
> I recently found online the browsable version of the m-b-p-i database,
> written by Mikel Olasagasti (also in CC):
> https://mobilebroadbandprovider.info
> 
> I asked him whether it would be fine to transition this site to
> something that we could automatically publish via CI, e.g. as we do
> with the NM and MM websites, using hugo and such. He quickly prepared
> some tools to do this and published an example site at
> http://mobile.olasagasti.info/ It is not as "pretty" as the original
> PHP based one yet, but I think it would be something very nice to
> publish by the project itself, e.g. updated on every git commit.
> 
> Does the GNOME gitlab have the same infrastructure to publish this
> kind of static pages generated via CI rules? Could we set this up in
> the GNOME gitlab instance?

We could use gitlab pages as with documentation. Do we have the sources
for the site generation somewhere?

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> I also thought about requesting the move of the m-b-p-i project to
> freedesktop.org gitlab, where both MM and NM have their sources, but
> that may not be completely necessary. Although from a user
> perspective, this would make the database no longer associated to
> GNOME only, which is not a bad idea maybe.



> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> -- 
> Aleksander
>