Re: About RawGit, and possible replacements

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 7:48 AM Antonio Olmo Titos <antonio@w3.org> wrote:
> 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.

There's no reason to use any of these; they predate the introduction
and subsequent ease-of-use improvements of the GitHub Pages service
(aka what you get served when you visit
https://username.github.io/reponame/).

Just set up your GH-Pages as desired (you can either serve the
gh-pages branch, or the master branch, or the /docs folder of the
master branch) and use that to serve things. Using rawgit and related
services has been an antipattern for years. Please don't recommend any
of these, and change your recommendations to just set up GitHub Pages.

~TJ

Received on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:36:18 UTC