[Jack-Devel] jackaudio.org pull request

[Markus Seeber]

I'd go with the hook variant then. This allows me to drop the _site
 dir from the repository entirely, avoiding the hassle of committing it.
 
This is implemented as a "post-receive" hook I guess?

On 05/04/2016 01:49 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> For ardour.org and community.ardour.org, we mirror the git repo to the
> webserver and make it rebuild the page(s) after a receiver. It works pretty
> easily - edit, commit, push ... gets mirrored automatically, website is
> rebuilt.
>
> But I'm fine with any approach, really. It is true that the
> rebuild-on-server thing does make slightly more of a demand on the
> webserver config.
>
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Markus Seeber <markus.seeber at mailbox.org>
> wrote:
>
>> I will think about that since that could solve some other problems too,
>> like being able to insert build date or commit hash or a tag into the
>> generated page.
>>
>> Would you prefer the webserver to rebuild the page after a push? This
>> would require jekyll to be available on the webserver in the required
>> version (maintenance effort).
>> The other possibility would be to have discrete releases where _site is
>> rebuilt and tags are created, which would not require jekyll on the
>> webserver.
>> Depends on how you or anyone else maintaining the hosting would like to
>> have that handled.
>>
>> If no decision is made, I'd rather tag discrete releases for now.
>>
>> On 05/03/2016 08:48 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
>>> Well, either that or there needs to be post-pull hook that rebuilds _site
>>> ...
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Markus Seeber <
>> markus.seeber at spectralbird.de
>>>> wrote:
>>>> This is correct. It is in sync with the changes I mentioned with the
>>>> last "pull request mail". The reason for not rebuilding "_site" on every
>>>> commit is, that changes to markdown files may generate a lot of changes
>>>> in "_site" so I do not commit "_site" on every change.
>>>>
>>>> I can create tags in future to signal a release, would this be
>> appropriate?
>>>> On 05/03/2016 08:05 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
>>>>> Markus - pulled the site, but the contents of the _site folder/dir do
>> not
>>>>> appear up to date ...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Markus Seeber <
>>>>> markus.seeber at spectralbird.de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/05/2016 03:38 PM, JoergSorge wrote:
>>>>>>>> Do you think the software is in a state such that end users can
>> build,
>>>>>>>> install, configure and use it themselves?
>>>>>>> That's a good question ;-) I know, I have a lot to do to make install
>>>>>>> and docs user friendly...
>>>>>>> Regards Jörg
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tracked your request anyway:
>>>>>> https://github.com/jackaudio/jackaudio.github.com/issues/45
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you think it is worth sharing, I'll include it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>> Markus
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