GH Pages with Jekyll on custom domain

On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 3:04:08 PM UTC+2, Krzysztof Koźmic wrote:
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>  you mean we could host it on github, with our old domain? 
>
> Or host Jekyll on Castle server?
>
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> Krzysztof Kozmic
>
> On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 4:59 PM, Aleš Roubíček wrote:
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> Cool. With Jekyll it will be also possible to handle old URIs and host it 
> on the castle domain.
>
> On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 1:57:20 AM UTC+2, Mauricio Scheffer wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently moved some documentation to Github and faced the same decision: 
> wiki, gh-pages, or loose markup files? I'd like to offer my thoughts about 
> it.
>
> The problem with Github wikis is that they're either fully public (meaning 
> there's a potential for spam or incorrect content) or closed to 
> collaborators, without the possibility for pull requests.
> There have been cases of wiki spam on Github: 
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bigjob-users/AGZr_UN0RZc 
> http://rants.arantius.com/github-sucks
>
> With markup files or gh-pages, anyone with a github account can click 
> "edit", make a change, and Github will automatically fork the repo and 
> create the corresponding pull request. The contributor doesn't even have to 
> know much about git.
> This is also similar to the old website 
> https://github.com/castleproject/Castleproject.org-Site except there was 
> no inline editor with preview, and HTML instead of a lighter markup 
> language.
>
> Of course, this means the maintainer has to review and merge every pull 
> request for documentation, same as with pull requests with code.
>
> gh-pages are the most flexible option, you can customize everything and 
> create a better navigation, anyone can create pull requests, and you can 
> bind it to a custom domain. But ultimately I chose loose markup files 
> committed directly in the same branch as the code. This means that code and 
> documentation go always together, and are branched and tagged together 
> (i.e. better versioning). Also, I didn't like any of the available 
> templates and it seems it has a higher maintenance cost (either you go the 
> pure html way, which is more taxing for editors, or use Jekyll, which might 
> fail ( 
> https://help.github.com/articles/pages-don-t-build-unable-to-run-jekyll
>  )).
>
> Just my 0.02
>
> Cheers,
> Mauricio
>
>
>
>
>
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> Mauricio
>  
>
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Krzysztof Koźmic 
> <krzyszto...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> We can keep the old doco and add a message about it being outdated, and 
> redirect to the new one, or redirect directly.
>
> How's the rest going? The migration and update?
>
> Krzysztof
>
>
> On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 2:42:04 PM UTC+10, Aleš Roubíček wrote:
>
> don't forget that stw doc has pretty good ranking in google, we have to 
> handle old uris somehow.
>
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