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Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:23:55 -0500
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I like the idea. Anything to avoid requiring svn to update project sites.

But... Iirc I started a similar thread before and was told that forwarding A=
pache.org to github static site was against the rules ?Maybe I misinterprete=
d ...


> On Mar 4, 2015, at 4:06 PM, Christopher <ctubbsii@apache.org> wrote:
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> All,
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> 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 usin=
g
> 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?
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> 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 thos=
e
> otherwise developing exclusively with Git).
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> 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).
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> More info: https://pages.github.com/
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> --
> Christopher L Tubbs II
> http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii