About RawGit, and possible replacements

Staff, chairs, spec-prod,

as you may know, the free online service RawGit is
discontinued, and will stop working for all URLs next year [1].
This was used by some groups to serve the drafts,
documents and other assets that they were hosting on
different repositories and branches on GitHub.

A few replacements have emerged lately, like
HTML Preview [2], raw.githack.com [3] and Staticaly [4].
They offer different features and levels of service.

Among these, the Systems Team for now recommend
Staticaly -- with the warning that it's just a suggestion that
comes with no support or guarantee from us, as it is a
third-party service that we do not control.

We have reflected this on our documentation about GH
usage and best practices [5].

Talk to us (or, even better, submit an issue or a pull
request) if you have questions, comments or ideas to
contribute.

Cheers,

[1] https://rawgit.com/
[2] https://htmlpreview.github.io/
[3] https://raw.githack.com/
[4] https://www.staticaly.com/
[5] https://w3c.github.io/faq.html


-- 
Antonio Olmo Titos — web developer, W3C
antonio@w3.org · https://w3.org/People/Antonio

Received on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 15:47:45 UTC