[Scipy-organizers] twist on github PR approach: treating gh-pages as master

[Andy Ray Terrel]

Well I'm fine with building a script that grabs the github source and
publishes it on conference.scipy.org.  But we need to create a index
website and build some providence for things to persist over time.

The only thing I don't like about scipy.github.io/scipy_proceedings is
that it isn't as stable as conference.scipy.org/proceedings/<year>
(meaning we can't ever move to a new service with the same url if
github pages stops).

James, any help in this area would be greatly appreciated. I haven't
had time to debug the scripts that are there.

-- Andy

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:19 PM, James Bergstra
<james.bergstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> New to the list: hi people!
>
> In follow up to the other thread (Publication and review in SciPy) I wanted
> to suggest a technical twist that would address *part* of the difficulty
> getting publications out.
>
> The github PR system is great, but one trouble with it is that it doesn't
> go far enough along the path to publication. Namely, merging things to
> master doesn't actually publish them in the conventional sense of the word.
>
> However, Github runs Jeckyll-based webpage rendering services so that
> individuals and organizations can host things at e.g.
>
> http://scipy.github.io/scipy_proceedings
>
> by pushing to gh-pages branch instead of master or master2013 or whatever.
>
> PRs should essentially be operating on that branch, rather than master. PRs
> should include a file in the _posts subdirectory, and put supplementary
> data (like e.g. the paper source and built PDF) in some other folder that
> the webserver can access. That way, when the chair/admin signs off and
> merges a PR (a paper) then it's DONE. The website served by github using
> Jeckyll is immediately and automatically updated with a new post about the
> paper, that post has links to whatever the author wanted: a PDF, a demo,
> link to slides, source, etc... in short, it is PUBLISHED, and no one has to
> come back and change anything later.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> - James
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