Can Not Migrate Netlify-Based Auto-Preview

[wesleyboar]

Overview

DS-User-Guide v2 can not support Netlify-based automatic deploys.

Auto deploys are feature lost during migration from DS_Use_Case_template.

Problem

• Version 2 relies on curl for dependency config and Docker for theme.
• Netlify needs static dependency config. Netlify does not serve Docker.

Solution

• Make dependency config files (poetry.lock and pyproject.toml) static.
• Supply TACC design via a theme not Docker i.e. CMD-154.

Background

Use Case documentation relies on contributors. It was migrated from another repo. Netlify automatically deployed the website at every commit of every branch, so a user could test live how a page would render. Not having this on DS-User-Guide makes testing require user test via these poor solutions:

• user, unfamiliar with, command line, using command line
• developer deploys and tests privately, and reports back to user
• developer allows deploy to production, and lets user test and fix live

Status

1. I have Netlify (my account, test deploy) successfully configured for DesignSafe-CI/DS_Use_Case_template.
2. I learned Netlify cannot deploy DS-User-Guide at version 2.