Re: About RawGit, and possible replacements



> On 13 Dec 2018, at 15:34, Ralph Swick <swick@w3.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

+1

I thought about not replying because this is so obvious, but it’s worth being clear that this is true!

There’s another pattern by the way, that I am not aware of anyone adopting yet, which is to use Github Pages, but to push the build artefacts of PR branches into specific named subfolders. This does mean that whatever build script is used to write to the branch served by Github Pages needs to be aware, and it means that serving the master branch is probably not wise.

Nigel

>
> -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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