On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Mike Kienenberger <mkien...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The github pages I've worked on have all been in Markdown, so they're > portable. > INdeed. And the Jekyll procedures I have talked about in this thread allow GH emulation at small cost. > > I also don't see any reason why we can't host pages elsewhere since we > control the source repositories. > Well, the cost of moving from that external hosting is a big risk, even if low probability. > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) > <ross.gard...@microsoft.com> wrote: > > Is it really necessary for our web pages to be served from Apache > hardware? If so, why? > > > > I understand why we want to control the canonical source, but do we > really need to own web server? > > > > A concern, for me, would be if hosting on GitHub Pages meant that we > could not easily switch to another host. > > > > Ross > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ted Dunning [mailto:ted.dunn...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 9:40 AM > > To: dev@community.apache.org > > Subject: Re: GitHub Pages > > > > Chris, > > > > The easy summary is that Apache would like to keep apache sites being > served by apache controlled hardware. > > > > Github serving pages fails that test. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 9:37 AM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > >> On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > I think those other comments about Jekyll had to do with keeping all > >> > of the site storage on apache servers. > >> > > >> > > >> I'm not sure I understand how Jekyll affects that. Are we concerned > >> that GitHub will not render the site's source accurately? And, if so, > >> wouldn't that concern extend to non-Jekyll static sources also? > >> > >> > >> > There have been objections in this thread about using github.io > >> > based sites even with site name masquerading. > >> > > >> > > >> Does anybody wish to summarize those? I think it would be helpful. > >> > >> > >> > Sent from my iPhone > >> > > >> > > On Mar 6, 2015, at 14:36, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > >> > > > >> > > Regarding some of the other comments about jekyll... it's not true > >> > > that > >> > you > >> > > need jekyll. You can publish plain HTML or Markdown also. > >> > > >> >
