Important notice: change of default branch

[fmichonneau]

hello Maintainers and contributors,

To facilitate contributions to this lesson, I set up an automated build and deploy system on this repository using Travis CI. Maintainers won't have to build the lessons and push to the repository, instead, after each push, Travis will run make site and deploy the built site to the website. However, to be able to do this, I changed the default branch from gh-pages to master. The gh-pages is used by Travis to write the content of the website, and is overridden every time the website is built. The master branch is where development happens.

As maintainers and contributors, be sure to start your pull requests and contributions from master and not gh-pages. It means that before working on this repository you need to do:

• git fetch
• git checkout master

If you need additional help, and not sure how to proceed, please do not hesitate to contact me ([email protected]) or ping me on Slack.

[lwasser]

woah! @fmichonneau can you show me how you set this up using the data? this is AWESOME. awesome awesome awesome.

[fmichonneau]

it's still very hacky, but the script that takes care of the data download part is in setup.R at the root of the repository.

[fmichonneau]

Travis now takes care of building and deploying the site after each push. The site can be viewed at: http://www.datacarpentry.org/r-spatial-data-management-intro/

There are still a few broken links, and formatting issues, but it should make it easier to start contributing to this lesson.