This is a good idea.


> On Jun 25, 2015, at 12:35, Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Based on John's comments I would like to raise an alternative.  If committing 
> the HTML is the main reason to return to Jekyll, why not we keep the current 
> work-flow for a while, but make the HTML creation automatic via Travis-CI?
> 
> I have a similar setup for some of my pages:
> 
> https://github.com/pyoceans/seapy/blob/master/.travis.yml
> 
> It would be a matter of creating a `.travis.yml` that executes all the 
> current build+publish steps.  The beauty of this is that we isolate the 
> Markdown files from any messy HTML creating process we choose.  One good side 
> effect is that, if we do it right, we can change to Jekyll (or any other HTML 
> generation process) without big changes in the original Markdown files.
> 
> 
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>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 1:23 PM, 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
>> 
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