- From: Ralph Swick <swick@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 09:34:32 -0500
- To: Antonio Olmo Titos <antonio@w3.org>
- Cc: Chairs <chairs@w3.org>, spec-prod <spec-prod@w3.org>
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 > >
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