trevormast/jekyll-pizza

A quick, user friendly approach to creating jekyll blogs hosted on github pages.

trevormast

A personal landing page for Trevor Mast.

jekyll-pizza's Issues

No tracking.

Make it a tenet of the organisation.
Include a privacy policy

Update redirect URI to use HTTPS

update "Authorization Callback URL" to use HTTPS in

• https://github.com/settings/applications

Sign in failure

Will forward to failure page with alert: you must confirm your github account.
No way to attempt sign in again.

Create a logo

We've been (temporarily) using Jekyll's logo, plus a pizza.
Update all refs to new logo (and new favicon)

We need our own!

Ideas:

• JEKYLL.(>
• jekyll.(>

Add ability to copy blank Jekyll files to temporary directory and inject user info

Add tracking with Dweet

Our "tracking" will be minimal and will only monitor public counts: creations.

• https://github.com/vannell/ruby-dweetio

How do we handle Jekyll build wait-time?

Should we add ability to check build status and wait to display new blog link until build has finished?
(github pages API supplies this info)

or

Should we simply tell user that wait times may vary and are due to github pages (redirect blame)?

How do we handle long wait times?

Even with asynchronous workers this job will take a while. Do we offer email option? Do we push user to attribution page?

Make final commits less invasive

Right now we are sequentially committing numbered .txt files every time the GHPages build fails. This can lead to crowding our users' repos and looks pretty unprofessional. Let's figure out a better approach:

1. delete extra files after page build

or

2. update existing files for our extra commits

Add LICENSE

Switch site to HTTPS

until we have our own cert

Come up with witty name

Upgrade our webserver from WEBrick

In production, we want to use a more robust webserver, such as Puma or Unicorn.

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails-unicorn

Change URL to site in GitHub

Currently, it reads blogpoole.herokuapp.com. Change to jekyll.pizza

Add 2-3 themes

Make choosing sexy

Create donate page

Add open graph metadata to head

Create initial content for index page

Use the current template and add content to engage our users. Keep the call-to-action in the first frame and add useful information to illustrate a step-by-step for creating the blog.

Add Rspec to app (coverage coming later)

Ensure coverage of at least 80%

Add RSpec to app

Create attribution page

Add attribution page

How do we add themes?

Determine best method for adding themes.

Are we going to create custom commits for the changed files or just different jekyll folders (easier)

There are also _layouts which can each have their own CSS/JS for a theme. The issue with adding to layouts is that we would need a layout for each type of page (default, page, post) which makes for a polluted initial jekyll site.

Increase test coverage to 80%

Improve baseurl generation

The 'baseurl' is a tricky value. Improve the logic for setting this in site_params/safe_params

Generate CSS From SASS

PaaS

paf as a service

Add logging and handling for errors

Currently, when creation fails, we are not logging the failure. Make sure this information is not lost and is easily ingestible.

Frictionless creation

Do not hold user up from creating when hitting submit.

Improve flash messaging.

Use sessions instead of @flash var + URL parameters.

Create Sinatra app and front page

Respond with basic HTML page at root of site. Inform the user what they are viewing and enter placeholder for call to action.

Register dev and live apps with GitHub

Register new application @ https://github.com/settings/developers

Create apps for DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION

Connect Heroku to GitHub

This will automate our deploys by connecting Heroku to GitHub. Any time a commit is pushed to master, it will be automatically pushed to Heroku.

• https://dashboard.heroku.com/apps/blogpoole/deploy/github

More info:

• https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/github-integration#enabling-github-integration

Create github repo

Create footer (update content)

Add new HTML5up template

We need a spiffy new template. Let's use Solid State from html5up.net!

Fix .screen-pane height for consistency across browsers

We want the initial view pane to fill the entire screen with a small blue lip at the bottom

Create developer README

Permit authentication with GitHub

Add Rubocop code style cop

Ensure formatting for mobile and tablet

We've been adding new elephants and they may not be formatted correctly on other devices.

eg.

• https://fresh.jekyll.pizza/new?error=Sorry,%20that%20repository%20already%20exists,%20pick%20a%20new%20path!

Improve validations

Improve the code where denoted
Remove weird chars, etc

Update the README

• Add Travis badge
• Update instructions
• Remove blog-poole

Create initial content for index page on newly generated blog

Make the user super excited about their new blog.
Help the user edit their new blog.
Link to Prose.io eg. http://prose.io/#/.github.io
Empower the user with their new Jekyll blog; explain how it works and how to use their own custom domain, custom templates, etc.

Improve error handling with graceful handling

A generic rescue block is used and this needs to be improved. Handle common errors and log the rest explicitly.

Fix issue with 404s on newly generated site!

Upon creating a new site, GitHub returns a 404. Figure out why!

Add Rubocop to CI

Reject if coverage drops

Add Travis CI

Add ability to save and view chosen jekyll theme

Right now there is no way to verify which theme users have chosen before starting the committing process. Let's use javascript to display the chosen theme next to our form.

• Show the user the current theme selection on the main form. This allows a user to see their current theme.
• Make the 'choose theme' button show the theme selection modal, and then once the user chooses 'Save' the thumbnail will be updated on the main form.
• Hovering on thumbnail will display the thumb in 100% opacity. Clicking the thumbnail on the main form will open the demo of that theme.
• Also, we could do away with 'live demo' buttons by creating 2 options when you hover on the theme thumbs in the selection modal. We can discuss further.

Create blank jekyll blog

We need a pristine copy of the latest Jekyll blog for duplication to user's repository. This will lock down the Jekyll version in order to avoid breakage upon updates.

Redirect all refs to jekyll.pizza

blog-poole was our initial name. it's gone now.

Guthub pages 404 error

Newly generated jekyll page will not load unless an additional commit is made.