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emcrisostomo
beautiful project home page
I'm wanting to link to fswatch from a project of mine: https://github.com/discoteq/discoteq.rb
It would be really nice to have a beautiful home page for fswatch, or at least a rendered version of the man page.
Yeah, that's one thing I've already looked into because I think it deserves it, too.
fsw at least has a page (although automatic, rendering part of the README file).
I'll try to involve @alandipert on this one: since I'm the only active contributor to fswatch, and since GitHub does not allow repository owners to delegate these privileges to contributors, I'd ask @alandipert to transfer the ownership of fswatch to me (at least temporarily) in order to be able to do it.
What do you think, @alandipert?
I'm down for anything, but I'm not clear on the privileges we're talking about or what I'm being asked to do. Are we talking about a *.github.io web presence? Is it move the repo to @emcrisostomo's account?
I'm happy to do that, but it if I understand correctly that would mean the project's primary URL would change after having been the same for many years, which could cause people and tools trouble and is something to consider.
If it is establishing a web presence we're talking about here, there are ways to do this that don't involve changing the project sourcecode URL which it might make sense for us to explore.
Again, happy to do anything, just wanted to throw out my concern for consideration.
Hi @alandipert,
Yes, I was suggesting having a GitHub Pages presence, at least initially since I'm not a web-developer-kind-of-guy and I vote for something with a high coolness/effort ratio. As far as I know only the repo owner can create the GitHub Pages website for a repository and that's why I suggested you moved the repo to my account so that I could start with the auto-generated website and customise from there. If you're aware of other ways to do it and/or if anybody has other suggestions let's discuss them.
As far as repo URLs are concerned, that's a valid point, and in fact forks would be affected because remote URLs should be updated. However, GitHub states that both old web links and git clone, fetch and push operations would be redirected to the new URL (see last section of How to transfer a repository) so it seems we wouldn't break them.
Cheers, -- Enrico
Hi Alan and all,
I’ve seen you transferred the repository, thanks. I’m releasing 1.4.0 and starting to build a website and the Wiki (in no particular order).
Cheers, -- Enrico Maria Crisostomo
From: Alan Dipert [email protected] Reply: alandipert/fswatch [email protected]> Date: 5 Aug 2014 at 16:31:51 To: alandipert/fswatch [email protected]> Cc: Enrico Maria Crisostomo [email protected]> Subject: Re: [fswatch] beautiful project home page (#36)
I'm down for anything, but I'm not clear on the privileges we're talking about or what I'm being asked to do. Are we talking about a *.github.io web presence? Is it move the repo to @emcrisostomo's account?
I'm happy to do that, but it if I understand correctly that would mean the project's primary URL would change after having been the same for many years, which could cause people and tools trouble and is something to consider.
If it is establishing a web presence we're talking about here, there are ways to do this that don't involve changing the project sourcecode URL which it might make sense for us to explore.
Again, happy to do anything, just wanted to throw out my concern for consideration.
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Hi @jsarenik,
As you suspect, it is not, that's why this issue is still open. I'm short of time lately.
Hi @jsarenik,
Any idea and/or design and/or code is welcome! The page could use any help I guess since it's pretty basic: the standard GitHub template showing an excerpt of the README.md.