[Python-Dev] Get a running instance of the doc for a PR.

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 2:33 AM Stephane Wirtel <stephane at wirtel.be> wrote:
>
> On 11/05, Chris Angelico wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 2:11 AM Julien Palard via Python-Dev
> ><python-dev at python.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> Considering feedback from Ned, what about building this as an independent service? We don't really need to interface with python.org at all, we just need some hardware, a domain, some code to interface with github API and... to start it's probably enough? It would be a usefull POC.
> >>
> >
> >After running 'make html', the build directory is the entire site as a
> >set of static files, right? Maybe the easiest solution is to tie in
> >with GitHub Pages. I already have a script that will push a directory
> >up as the gh-pages branch of the current repo; it'd just need a tweak
> >so it can push to a specific repo, which you could create on GitHub
> >for the purpose. Not 100% automatic, but also not too difficult to
> >automate, if needed.
> >
> >https://github.com/Rosuav/shed/blob/master/git-deploy
>
> Nice idea, but I am not for that.
>
> 1. We will populate the git repository with a lot of gh-pages branches
> and I am not for this solution
> 2. This static doc is just temporary, once merged, we have to remove the
> link and the content on the server, with the gh-pages, that will be a
> commit where we drop the content, but it's a commit and we will consume
> the storage of github.
> 3. 1 repo has only one gh-pages, in our case, we need to have a lot of
> gh-pages for a repo.
>

Yeah, understood. I was thinking of having the individual patch
authors create temporary GitHub repositories to push to. It'd be an
optional step; if you want to show people a preview of your PR, just
create a repository and push to it (using a script something like
that). That way, you don't have to worry about malicious content
(since it'll be hosted under the author's name - I'm sure GitHub have
measures in place to deal with that, and it wouldn't be Python.org's
problem), nor having lots of gh-pages branches sitting around (they'd
be the responsibility of the author).

> But thank you for your idea.

No probs, and I don't mind if it's not adopted. Just wanted to put it out there.

ChrisA