Our website now runs from GitHub Pages

Justin Clift jclift at redhat.com
Mon Oct 29 18:14:39 UTC 2012


Hi everyone,

Good news. :)  The www.aeolusproject.org website now runs
completely out of GitHub Pages.

(technically, www.aeolusproject.org is now a CNAME redirect
to aeolusproject.github.com)

This makes updating the website very quick and simple.

Everything in the new GitHub repo is in Markdown (kramdown
variety), with the website automatically regenerated on
every new commit:

  https://github.com/aeolusproject/aeolusproject.github.com

To change anything, just submit a pull request like a standard
GitHub project now. :)

Page regeneration happens within a few minutes of every merge.

If anyone needs it, the repo for the old nanoc based website is
now here:

  https://github.com/aeolusproject/aeolus-website-old

Caveats
*******

 + The temporary redirects from www.aeolusproject.org/redmine
   to redmine.aeolusproject.org don't work any more.

   To link to the Redmine site from here on, you have to use
   the https://redmine.aeolusproject.org/redmine URL.

Credits
*******

Several people need thanking for their work on this:

 * Francesco Vollero for the idea to use GitHub Pages in the
   first place, then creating the initial concept website to
   show it works, plus getting the DNS changes done.

 * Matt Wagner for writing up the initial ToDo list plan,
   moving Redmine to it's own subdomain, and creating all of
   the apache rewrite rules.

 * Jason Guiditta for the GitHub repo admin-ing.

 * Myself for bulk converting the old website contents to
   Markdown. :)

Regards and best wishes,

Justin Clift

--
Aeolus Community Manager
http://www.aeolusproject.org




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