Re: About RawGit, and possible replacements

On 2018-12-11 10:47 AM, Antonio Olmo Titos wrote:
> 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].

... instantly making many URIs cited in our archives (mail, github, &tc) 
un-Cool

   https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

Somewhere on our (ordered) requirements list must be how to assure that 
we limit the risk of repeating this dis-service to those who refer to 
our records in the future.

-Ralph

> 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
> 
> 

Received on Thursday, 13 December 2018 14:34:36 UTC