animint2 Reference Website

[ampurr]

Here's the thread that will track the development of the animint2 reference website. 🐈

[ampurr]

@tdhock, sorry—I'm gonna ask you to do something for me. I would do it myself, but I don't have security clearance (or whatever it's called). 😅

Could you go to Settings > Pages and deploy the GitHub Pages site from the reference-website-yay branch? Later on we'll probably start deploying from the main branch and automate things with GitHub Actions (unless you don't want to).

But for now I just wanna set up a preliminary site in your repo instead of my fork. Also, usethis::use_pkgdown_github_pages() doesn't work unless GitHub Pages is set up.

Thanks! As always, no rush. :>

[tdhock]

I did that, does it work for you?

[ampurr]

Thanks! Lemme run the pkgdown stuff and play around. I'll you know as soon as I do plus a delay of perhaps up to several minutes, since instantaneous communication is impossible. :>

[ampurr]

Hmm. When you deployed the site, in

Settings > Pages > Build and deployment > Source,

are you using GitHub Actions or are you deploying from the reference-website-yay branch?

[tdhock]

It says Deploy from a branch, is that ok? Can I give you access some how so you can do this config?

[ampurr]

Yeah, deploy from a branch should be right. Weird that it works from my fork but throws up a GitHub API error (404): Not Found error when I do it from my branch in this repo. I'll figure it out.

Feel free to give me access, and I'll happily return it when the GitHub Pages site is set up. But I'm not sure how to do it. Maybe give me admin powers? I can't find anything about whether admins have power over setting up Pages, though. If you have more modular control, feel free to give me access only to the Pages settings or something. But I haven't been able to find anything about that.

[ampurr]

Yeah, deploy from a branch should be right. Weird that it works from my fork but throws up a GitHub API error (404): Not Found error when I do it from my branch in this repo. I'll figure it out.

Hypothesis: I'm using my personal access token, which maybe probably doesn't work for this repo since it's not mine. I may need you to generate a token for this repo and send it to me.

When I started this project, I had no idea it would require so many tedious little tasks from you, which I apologize for. Do you think I should continue this stuff from my fork instead? Of course, that has other problems and probably increases your future workload in exchange for a reduced workload now. 🤔

[tdhock]

OK thanks for the info. I'm not sure how to give you admin access, because I think github changed their web site since the last time I did that. I don't know if this will help, but I saw a message saying "create an organization to grant access controls" so I created the animint organization, and invited you.

[ampurr]

Thanks! I joined but the animint organization doesn’t seem to have access to any repositories. I don’t know if it’s because the animint2 repo wasn’t added, or if it’s cuz I’m missing some sort of permission. Either way: I don’t get access to the settings for animint2 and therefore can’t control the stuff about pages.

Don’t worry about it, though. If it’s okay with you: I can just do stuff on my fork and at some later date we can have an electron meeting and figure it out this GUI stuff together. And I can just merge my fork into a branch here later, too.

[tdhock]

hi @ampurr and @Faye-yufan I gave you admin access to this repo (recently transferred to animint/animint2 from tdhock/animint2) does that work for you?

[ampurr]

@tdhock: It works! Thank you very much. :>

[Faye-yufan]

Hi @tdhock , yes it works, thank you!

[ampurr]

Status update: I'm currently working on editing README.md, which will serve as the home page for the animint2 reference site, and which @tdhock suggested that I edit during our last meeting. (It is currently a mirror image of README.org.)

If there's anything I should really make sure to include or exclude, please let me know. 🐱

[tdhock]

for sure include screenshots, installation, and basic usage example. anything else you want to delete please move to a wiki page.