Re: git-scm.com is now a static website

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 24, 2024, 22:29 UTC
Message-ID: <20240924222924.GC1148242@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <c3e372f6-3035-9e6b-f464-f1feceacaa4b@gmx.de>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2024 at 12:07:05AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> almost 400 weeks after Matt Burke started the process with
> https://github.com/spraints/git-scm.com/commit/60af4ed3bc60 of migrating
> Git's home page away from being a Rails app to being a static website that
> is hosted on GitHub pages instead, today marks the day when Git's home
> page at https://git-scm.com/ has finally moved. Or actually: yesterday
> (because I took so long writing this email that I ended up sending it
> after midnight).
> 
> This was truly a team effort, and I would like to celebrate everyone who
> contributed:

Yay! A big thank _you_ for carrying it all through to completion.

I cowered in fear from the project on multiple occasions. And even when you started working on it, I intentionally avoided getting involved because I knew what a rabbit hole it could become. So I am doubly happy that it was completed, and without me. :)

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> As with all big efforts, I am under no illusion about everything working
> as intended, I do expect some fall-out to crop up (e.g. external links
> that might now be broken, even if I tried very hard to avoid that). I hope
> that the team spirit I described above invites more helping hands in
> getting those issues found and sorted out.

Yeah. One of the reasons I was so enthusiastic about switching is that we'd routinely see small breakages with the old site (failing translation imports, search index going belly-up, oops we need to move to a new version of ruby which subtly breaks all sorts of things, etc). People will generally open issues in the GitHub repo as they see things, and I figured that even with a few rough edges the new site was probably going to be more reliable than the old one.

-Peff