Closed pradyunsg closed 1 year ago
I created a netlify account to poke around, but I'm at $DAYJOB, I'll continue poking around later.
Netlify has an open source plan, that this project would qualify for: https://www.netlify.com/legal/open-source-policy
Netlify asks for the "Act on your behalf" (WTF!?) permission on my github account in order to make it work, I won't give this, so I can't setup netlify (and I don't think anyone else should do, this permission is just plain scary).
We could create a dedicated low-permission github account to setup netlify, or try something else.
Would it work with readthedocs? I mean, to test it fully we need to setup language and version switchers, I don't see how it can work.
About trying something else, it's just a matter of adding an rsync
line in the github action, and ... finding a server to host this. @ewdurbin any idea?
Maybe we could host this on a github page (like python.github.io/python-docs-theme/pr-123/), by pushing to the github page repo from the github action?
There may be leads around https://github.com/htmlpreview/htmlpreview.github.com too, if it works with js/css (would probably need to massvely rewrite links using sed in the action, leading to other bugs).
Tried to see if we could build a kind of http proxy around artifacts, like:
https://example.com/https://github.com/python/python-docs-theme/suites/2680278273/artifacts/59091318/index.html
which would download the zip, cache it, extract it, and provide asked content. But looks like we can't access artifact when not logged in...
We discussed adding netlify for the DevGuide here https://github.com/python/devguide/issues/463
In the end we ended up with using readthedocs preview capabilities.
I was wondering if we should have an org account on readthedocs. DevGuide's rtd account is currently a personal one.
FYI, the main Python documentation now has Netlify previews, in issue python/cpython#82041 / PR python/cpython#92852 , so there are examples of both platforms in use now for core Python infra.
Please see PR https://github.com/python/python-docs-theme/pull/105.
There's been interest expressed in this. This is me trying to have a dedicated place to track that whole discussion. :)
There are a bunch of options for what to do to get PR previews, to make life easier for reviewers of PRs to this theme.
The ones that I know of are:
Both of these platforms provide free hosting and the ability to preview PRs.