Automate deploy previews for docs PRs
infotexture opened this issue · 3 comments
We have CI builds for the dev docs
- All pushes to the
developbranch of dita-ot/docs are currently deployed to themasterbranch of dita-ot/website and visible at www.dita-ot.org/dev.
Netlify provides deploy previews for website PRs
- Deploy previews are automatically built when pull requests are created from other branches of dita-ot/website, but so far these branches are created manually for pre-release reviews.
What's missing is deploy previews for docs PRs
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Add Travis scripts (or GitHub Actions) to push the results of docs PRs to new branches in the site repo and generate a deploy preview in the docs PR, so reviewers can view the changes in the rendered output.
The website repo doesn't need a corresponding PR for each docs repo PR, it's enough that we generate a branch in website repo for each docs repo PR. These temporary preview branches should be deleted after the docs repo PR has been merged or closed.
The preview action seems to work. Because it's pretty slow, it might become an issue that if the PR author pushes to the PR every few minutes, the previous actions will not have time to run.
Will enable Travis again.
🙏 Thanks @jelovirt, works as intended, closing.