mit-acl.github.io

Jekyll website for Aerospace Controls Laboratory at MIT.

Setup

We build the static site locally and then push it to the gh-pages branch for hosting. This requires you clone the repository and _site folder correctly.

git clone --recurse-submodules git@github.com:mit-acl/mit-acl.github.io.git
cd mit-acl.github.io.git
git clone -b gh-pages `git config remote.origin.url` _site

If you clone the repo without the --recurse-submodules flag, you can initialize the submodules after the fact with:

git submodule init 
git submodule update

Easy build

• Update bibliography repo and commit/push any changes
• Build and commit the static site into _site with bash and Docker: ./build_and_deploy.bash
• Check the deployment status here
• Check the website at: https://mit-acl.github.io/

Alternative manual build (not recommended)

If you don't want to install Docker, you can manually build, commit, and push:

• Update the _bibliography submodule with: git submodule update --remote
• Commit your changes to the source repo (i.e. mit-acl.github.io)
• Build the static site into _site with your local Jekyll installation: bundle exec jekyll build
• Commit your build to the gh-pages branch (i.e. inside _site)
• Check the deployment status here
• Check the website at: https://mit-acl.github.io/

New Students

If you're a new student, you need to be added to the website. Reach out to the current ACL webmaster via Slack and provide the following:

1. A headshot (i.e. .jpg or .png)
2. Markdown providing your information. (See this example.) Alternatively, if you're comfortable with GitHub/GitHub pages, you're welcome to make the changes yourself and submit a pull request.

Notes

• Citations are stored in this repo.
• Static site builds are stored on this branch.
• Derived from the old private website repo. (Didn't fork because of the LFS files committed directly to the old repo.)