The in-repo Markdown files are now the source of truth

[mathiasbynens]

For any URL that existed on the web app version of the previous tc39/tc39-notes repository, we’re now redirecting to the Markdown file in the source.

Examples:

• https://tc39.es/notes/ redirects to https://github.com/tc39/notes/tree/master/meetings
• https://tc39.es/notes/2012-05_may-21.html redirects to https://github.com/tc39/notes/blob/master/meetings/2012-05/may-21.md
• https://tc39.es/notes/2018-11_summary.html redirects to https://github.com/tc39/notes/blob/master/meetings/2018-11/summary.md

We’ve contacted GitHub support asking to set up redirects from https://tc39.github.io/tc39-notes/ (the gh-pages URL for the old repo that was a fork of Rick’s) to https://tc39.github.io/notes/ (the gh-pages URL for new repo). Once that happens, https://tc39.es/tc39-notes/* will redirect to https://tc39.es/notes/*, and so the above redirects will take care of any existing links pointing to the old URLs.

Benefits:

• There’s now a single canonical URL for each day of notes, instead of the previous number of 4 (1 × *.md + 1 × *.html for each repo).
• Pre-existing links continue to work.
• We no longer have to maintain and update the gh-pages branch — instead, we can simply freeze the current version.
• The meeting notes repo is simpler because we no longer need the scripts + deps to create the web site.

Thoughts?

[mathiasbynens]

To set up the redirects, someone will have to take on tc39/tc39.github.io#173.