[Biopython-dev] Experimenting with migrating wiki to GitHub pages

João Rodrigues j.p.g.l.m.rodrigues at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 20:40:18 UTC 2016


Addendum: Don't forget to add the gh-pages gem or whatever it is to your
environment, to mimic as best as possible the github pages environment. Had
a few surprises already when deploying changes..

A sáb, 9/04/2016, 12:41, Peter Cock <p.j.a.cock at googlemail.com> escreveu:

> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Markus Piotrowski
> <Markus.Piotrowski at ruhr-uni-bochum.de> wrote:
> >
> > Am 09.04.2016 um 00:10 schrieb Peter Cock:
> >>
> >> I made some progress on the migration, and will tackle the category
> pages
> >> next, then "borrow" some of Andreas' styling work as showcased on the
> (now
> >> live) http://biojava.org site. Adding the static API docuemntation
> pages
> >> should be easy, the old release might be more trouble if there are any
> >> hosting or file size limits we might hit...
> >
> >
> > BioJava looks great, it uses "Spectral" from HTML5 UP (
> http://html5up.net/).
> > Personally, I like "Strongly  Typed" (http://html5up.net/strongly-typed)
> > more, maybe because it's easier for me to imagine how the old site would
> > like there ;-)
> > Is there any possibility to assist you? Let us know!
> >
> > Markus
>
> Hi Markus,
>
> It sounds like you know more about the Jekyll styles that I do,
> so your advice and help would be welcome :)
>
> I think people could fork the repository but should use their own
> account name for the repository name - i.e. username.github.io in
> order to get it rendered by GitHub, e.g. my username is peterjc:
>
> https://github.com/peterjc/peterjc.github.io --> http://peterjc.github.io/
>
> (At some point I will delete that now we have this under the
> Biopython GitHub account, maybe one day I'll use that for
> a personal homepage hosted by GitHub instead?)
>
> Or, in theory you can work on the website look-and-feel using
> a locally installed version of Jekyll 3.0.
>
> If you can get something looking good and make a GitHub
> pull request, that should work out nicely :)
>
> If you (or anyone else) is mosre interested in the migration step,
> I can send you the MediaWiki dump XML file off list and you can
> then contribute to the converter tool at:
> https://github.com/peterjc/mediawiki_to_git_md
>
> Thanks!
>
> Peter
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