On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:07 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> wrote:
> 2015-03-05 15:42 GMT+01:00 Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com>: > >> 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, >> > > Usually you have to activate github pages in the repository configuration. > Are github pages activated by default for ASF mirrors or did you request > that from infra? > I did not ask infra anything. I just pushed an orphaned gh-pages branch with an index.html literally 5 minutes, an no need for jekyll > Benedikt > > >> >> -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 >> >> > > > -- > http://people.apache.org/~britter/ > http://www.systemoutprintln.de/ > http://twitter.com/BenediktRitter > http://github.com/britter
