[swift-evolution] [Meta] Proposal status page

[Jacob Bandes-Storch]

It occurs to me that moving swift-evolution to use *only* a gh-pages
branch, like swift-internals does, would allow this to work without JS.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Jacob Bandes-Storch <jtbandes at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I got sidetracked today and mocked up a proposal "status page":
>
>     http://jtbandes.github.io/swift-evolution/
>
> This moves the proposal status info (currently in README.md) into a
> separate "source of truth":
>
>     https://github.com/jtbandes/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals.xml
>
> The status page is then generated from the source of truth using XSLT.
> Unfortunately, in order to get this working on GitHub Pages, I had to load
> the files using JavaScript (otherwise the browser blocks the cross-origin
> requests):
> https://github.com/jtbandes/swift-evolution/blob/gh-pages/index.html.
>
>
> If we wanted to adopt this for the official swift-evolution repo, the
> steps would be:
>
>     1. push the XML and XSL files to master
>
>     2. push a gh-pages branch with the status page
>
>     3. update README.md on master to point to the status page, rather than
> duplicating all the information.
>
>
> Thoughts? Tweaks? Insults?
>
> Jacob
>
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