On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> 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
Infra is more than willing to let you experiment to your hearts content. Perhaps we can setup a sandbox repo for you to test and work in? --David
