On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 4:50 PM, Raymond Toy toy.raymond@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:09 AM, Erik Huelsmann ehuels@gmail.com wrote:
One question does remain: would anybody be interested in having the "easy" route for deploying static website content through Git*Lab* pages? In other words, would there still be a benefit for us setting it up or is there no demand?
Is it a lot of work or on-going maintenance? Do the static pages also get a git repo so you can do revision control on them?
Yes: every project uses a git repository to develop its pages. you can push to your pages repo, the pages feature builds your static content and pushes it out to update the hosted site. I was studying the exact mechanics last night.
There is mostly the initial effort to get it set up. There doesn't seem to me more effort involved in maintaining this additional bit of GitLab than there already is with the rest of it.
I'm considering moving the pages from www.cmucl.org to here (and having www.cmucl.org redirect). But we're also considering just moving all the pages there to the wiki, so we then wouldn't need static pages. There aren't a lot of pages and the pages are quite simple so the effort to move to the wiki isn't huge.
Do you want to run an experiment with GitLab pages to see if it suits your needs?