I have no preference for jekyll v. pandoc, but I do wish we would stop
changing our build process so often. We make it very difficult for
instructors that only contribute a few times a year when they teach
workshops.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Greg Wilson
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The most common complaint about our current lesson template is that it
> requires people to commit generated HTML as well as Markdown source to the
> repository's gh-pages branch.

Aren't only the maintainers supposed to commit the generated HTML?
Generating the html to view locally is similar whether we use jekyll
or pandoc.

https://github.com/swcarpentry/lesson-template/blob/c19c252bc25885eb7df3e086699a07eedbbd006f/CONTRIBUTING.md

> We've blogged about this at
> http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/06/using-jekyll-for-lessons.html -
> we'd be grateful if you could tell us whether it's worth making the change.

As we now make the transition to using jekyll, I'd like us to
recognize that we have come full circle. We were originally using
jekyll before we made the switch to pandoc. When making the decision
to switch from pandoc to jekyll, shouldn't we at least consider the
reasons we switched from jekyll to pandoc in the first place? What has
changed since this blog post was written that has made us decide to
switch back?

http://software-carpentry.org/blog/2014/10/pandoc-and-gh-pages.html

I understand that we want our build process to be as ideal as
possible, but what if we focused our energy more on improving and/or
creating lesson content?

John

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