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Subject: Re: GitHub Pages
From: Sebastien Goasguen <runseb@gmail.com>
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 09:42:52 -0500
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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 Fern=E1ndez <wikier@apache.org> =
wrote:

> Hi Christopher,
>=20
> GitHub Pages is actually powered by Jekyll: http://jekyllrb.com
>=20
> So that would mean to add such build method to Apache CMS.
>=20
> I'd be more than happy to explore such path.
>=20
> On 04/03/15 22:06, Christopher wrote:
>> All,
>>=20
>> 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?
>>=20
>> 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).
>>=20
>> 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).
>>=20
>> More info: https://pages.github.com/
>>=20
>> --
>> Christopher L Tubbs II
>> http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii
>>=20
>=20
> --=20
> Sergio Fern=E1ndez
> Partner Technology Manager
> Redlink GmbH
> m: +43 660 2747 925
> e: sergio.fernandez@redlink.co
> w: http://redlink.co