add GitHub link on pages

[spdegabrielle]

Just a suggestion - can we add a GitHub link on pages at scheme.org that link back to the respective repositories ?

My experience in contributing was that https://github.com/schemeorg-community/monorepo/ is not obvious
this was made doubly confusing by the repo for the front page being on an entirely different organisation:
https://www.scheme.org & https://github.com/schemeorg

[arthurgleckler]

That's a good idea. I welcome pull requests. Otherwise, I'll put it on my backlog.

[spdegabrielle]

PR for community #12

[arthurgleckler]

Thanks! Merged and pushed.

[lassik]

Such links have been a TODO of mine for a long time, but I've been putting it off because it would be nice to automate it. We don't have a standard way to programmatically insert HTML onto pages.

(Some of our HTML comes from S-XML via Scheme, and it's easy to add new machine-generated parts to it, but it's not clear what to do about the .html files. We could convert to .md or .adoc but that just passes the buck - how do we then generate information into those?)

[arthurgleckler]

On another project, I've had luck using Pandoc to convert HTML into JSON, then reading the JSON, manipulating it, and converting back to HTML. We could use that technique to put footer elements even on static HTML pages.

[spdegabrielle]

I understand the urge to automate - but I believe it creates a barrier to contribution.

If I edit html I know it is going to work, if I use an automation someone else has put together - even common ones - you add the responsibility for me to locally implement your implementation to test my change has worked before posting the PR.

You also run the risk I am naughty and don't test my PR - then the repo owners get the additional work that comes with untested PR's failing more often than ones that have been tested.