> > I am looking into Ecstatic to generate a static web site from Pillar > files hosted on GitHub Pages.
This is rather easy as Ecstatic was built just for that, so there is no need to change Pillar for it. this https://guillep.github.io/ecstatic/install.html and this https://gist.github.com/cobyism/4730490 should be all you need to get it up & running on GH pages. Peter