So FWIW, I never thought about using github pages for our website. I just tried it.
Created an orphaned gh-pages in our repo, pushed that. It got mirrored right away and now we have: http://apache.github.io/cloudstack/ Based off of: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/tree/gh-pages Loving it, -sebastien On Mar 5, 2015, at 4:22 AM, Sergio Fernández <wik...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Christopher, > > GitHub Pages is actually powered by Jekyll: http://jekyllrb.com > > So that would mean to add such build method to Apache CMS. > > I'd be more than happy to explore such path. > > On 04/03/15 22:06, Christopher wrote: >> All, >> >> Has any thought been put into leveraging GitHub pages for project >> documentation, static site hosting? A lot of www.apache.org is simple >> static content, as are project pages. Since a lot of projects are now using >> git, and we mirror projects in GitHub, perhaps we can help the individual >> projects maintain their site's static content by simply committing to a >> gh-pages branch for their project? >> >> Since it's just static content which is still hosted and controlled by ASF, >> but simply placed in a way that GitHub can render it from the mirrors, I >> don't think there's too many issues of concern, but wasn't sure if >> anybody's put any thought into it. I know it would certainly be easier for >> some projects than using the existing CMS system with SVN (especially those >> otherwise developing exclusively with Git). >> >> It might "just work" today, but I haven't tried it. I'd be willing to work >> with INFRA to help experiment with it, though (especially if we wanted to >> try out the CNAME feature). >> >> More info: https://pages.github.com/ >> >> -- >> Christopher L Tubbs II >> http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii >> > > -- > Sergio Fernández > Partner Technology Manager > Redlink GmbH > m: +43 660 2747 925 > e: sergio.fernan...@redlink.co > w: http://redlink.co
