-1 on the change, and thank you to John Blischak for writing a more eloquent version of the response that I was struggling to write.
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 9:24 AM John Blischak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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