josix / swportal

Portal website for sciwork: https://sciwork.dev/

Sciwork portal

This repository is for the website for the sciwork portal. Check-ins to the repository will be automatically deployed to the website by Netlify.

The website is built by using pelican. The flow for contribution is:

1. Clone the repository
2. Run a local devserver
3. Edit the content
4. File a pull request (PR) against develop branch
5. Resolve discussions in the PR review
6. PR is merged, done

Note

Do NOT file PR against the master branch.

In the working copy root, run the following command for the local devserver:

env SITEURL=http://localhost:8000 make devserver [PORT=8000]

Branch convention

The master branch is deployed to the official website https://sciwork.dev and https://swportal.netlify.app.

The develop branch is deployed to the under development https://develop--swportal.netlify.app.

Other branches are deployed to https://{branch}--swportal.netlify.app. Replace / in the branch name with -.

Pull requests are deployed to https://deploy-preview-{id}--swportal.netlify.app. {id} is the PR ID.

Changes for improvement

To add contents or website features, create a branch named like feature/your-addition.

New blog entries

To add a new blog entry, the branch name should be feature/blog/entry-name.

New event entries

To add a new evnet entry, the branch name should be feature/event/entry-name.

Bugfix

If you want to fix bugs or typographical errors, create a branch named like bugfix/your-fix.

Writing content

Pelican supports writing content in reStructuredText format (with a file ending in .rst) or Markdown syntax (with a file ending in .md, .markdown, .mkd, or .mdown).

Scisprint

To add a new Scisprint event, save the pages into content/pages/sprint/{date:%Y} directory, and the URL should be sprint/{date:%Y}/{slug}.