On 11/27/12 10:37 AM, Steve Ridout wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Continuing the earlier discussion started by Carles, I think it would
> be great for the CSL editor currently at steveridout.com/csl to move
> home to csleditor.citationstyles.org. To make this easy, I've removed
> the php dependency of the CSL editor site so it can be hosted on
> github pages.
>
> What this means:
> - Hosting is now free, in terms of money and admin hassle, by hosting
> it via github at any subdomain, e.g. csleditor.citationstyles.org.
> It's super-simple to set up, all you'd need to do is add a CNAME
> record and alter the CNAME text file in the repo.
> - Deploying is simple. Just commit the built version to the gh-pages
> branch in github. (contact myself or Carles if you'd like to be a
> member of the citation-style-editor github organisation)
>
> My hope is that this new setup will make it more attractive for other
> developers to get involved.
>
> If you agree, whoever is responsible for administrating the
> citationstyles.org domain (Dan Stillman?), please get in touch with me
> personally and we can set things up. I can set up redirects from the
> steveridout.com/csl to pages so the old links will still work.

This is great, and sorry for the lack of response from our end earlier. 
The PHP dependency was indeed the main impediment—hosting externally 
maintained server-side code in citationstyles.org's current location was 
problematic from a security perspective. Having it served straight from 
a GitHub branch is fantastic.

Steve, I've sent you an e-mail separately regarding the CNAME setup.

- Dan

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