[Neuroimaging] Site Discussion

Ben Cipollini bcipolli at ucsd.edu
Wed Aug 26 18:24:48 CEST 2015


Thanks for all your work, Vanessa! Looking forward to see what you come up
with.
Ben

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Vanessa Villamia Sochat <
vsochat at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I thought more about this on my walk - here is a reasonable game plan! I
> will do the work to put together a solution that integrates Ariel's
> original vision with ghpages, the parts of Jekyll that do work, and a more
> non developer friendly integrated blog. I think this could meet all of our
> goals and be a solution that better integrates social aspects of our
> community - github just doesn't specialize in blogging but many services
> do. If that does not work, then we can go to Sphinx. Boum!
>
> I will send out an update likely during weekend time when I've tested some
> things.
>
> Best,
>
> Vanessa
>
> > On Aug 26, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.brett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 4:10 PM, vanessa sochat <vsochat at stanford.edu>
> wrote:
> >> Hi Group,
> >>
> >> Ben and I are having some discussion on the higher level goals of the
> site,
> >> and want to bring everyone in. In summary, we want something that is
> easy to
> >> contribute content to, and has continuous integration for previewing
> >> updates. I am wondering, what was wrong with the initial look of the
> site?
> >> Was it that sphinx is hard to update?
> >
> > Actually, I think that sphinx is a very good option, and most other
> > scientific Python sites use sphinx for their main pages.
> >
> > The particular template that we were using was a little dated and
> > ugly, but I bet that could be improved.
> >
> > Most if not all developers are perfectly capable of building the
> > sphinx documentation locally to preview it, but we can also do what
> > other projects are doing, and build / publish the docs in some
> > temporary place for each commit, using an entry in the travis-ci
> > matrix of jobs.
> >
> > I think Ariel was particularly attracted to Jekyll / github pages,
> > because it is very easy to get a rendered version to look at with a
> > git push, and although that is generally desirable, I think building /
> > reviewing locally is at least as important.
> >
> > So - if it were entirely up to me - I would prefer we go back to
> > sphinx, on the basis that it is a very familiar workflow to most
> > Python developers.
> >
> > Thanks very much for doing all this work by the way - it's very
> > helpful, and I'm sorry that we are going round and round.
> >
> > See you,
> >
> > Matthew
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