Difficulty accessing SG14 from the web about sg14

[hatcat]

I have just navigated to my proposal, which is a pdf, clicked on it to view it in GitHub and right-clicked on it to download it to the desktop. Are we sure what the problem is? Might it be more to do with consistency and clarity of naming? Next time I make a submission I will go through the documents and see if I can come up with some process for this.

[johnmcfarlane]

PDFs are a proprietary binary format and as such, GitHub leaves them well alone. HTML files - on the other hand - are potentially viewed from any browser and even text editors. Thus, instead of zero ways to view them, there are at least two. I think that's where the confusion begins.

If you've followed the thread I linked to above, you'll see it is not obvious how to download HTML files from a GitHub repo. For example, the URL https://github.com/WG21-SG14/SG14/blob/master/Docs/Proposals/p0037.html might lead you to think you're navigating to the HTML-format document in question. Not so. Click this link and you'll see a GitHub page enclosing the actual document. You can click the "Raw" button, then choose "Save As..." from your browser and then load the downloaded file from your file explorer (Finder etc.). That's a lot of steps to get an HTML file from a web browser!

[johnmcfarlane]

To try and avoid future problems such as those surrounding P0037's submission, and to demonstrate GitHub pages, I've copied the paper to the same repo as the reference implementation.

You can now view the paper in HTML format correctly in a browser through this link. You can see the same HTML file in the regular GitHub presentation style here.

As far as I'm concerned this solves enough of the problems surrounding dissemination of documents via GitHub that I feel I can close this issue. I'd still be interested in fixed_point being a child rep of a WG21-SG14 org but at this point, that's not such a pressing matter. Cheers!