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Author: colinjfw

Gemfile.lock

@@ -258,6 +258,3 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   html-proofer
   jekyll-seo-tag
   rouge
-
-BUNDLED WITH
-   1.17.2

_config.yml

@@ -19,10 +19,9 @@ social:
 
 deliverybot_url: https://app.deliverybot.dev
 github_app_url: https://github.com/apps/deliverybot
-github_install_url: https://github.com/apps/deliverybot/installations/new
 github_org_url: https://github.com/deliverybot
 spectrum_url: https://spectrum.chat/deliverybot/general
-start_url: https://github.com/marketplace/deliverybot#pricing-and-setup
+start_url: /docs/quickstart/
 slack_url: https://app.deliverybot.dev/slack/install
 pricing_url: /pricing
 twitter_url: https://twitter.com/deliverybotdev

_includes/start.html

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <div class="text-center mt-5">
-  <a target="_blank" href="{{site.start_url}}" role="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-large">
-    Get started for free
+  <a href="{{site.start_url}}" role="button" class="btn btn-primary btn-large">
+    Get started
   </a>
 </div>
 <div class="text-center mt-2">

_layouts/default.html

@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@
     <div class="hide-sm">
       <a class="text-gray-dark mr-2" href="/docs/">Docs</a>
       <a class="text-gray-dark mr-2" href="/blog/">Blog</a>
-      <a target="_blank" class="text-gray-dark mr-2" href="{{site.pricing_url}}">Pricing</a>
+      <!-- <a target="_blank" class="text-gray-dark mr-2" href="{{site.pricing_url}}">Pricing</a> -->
       <a target="_blank" class="text-gray-dark mr-2" href="{{site.deliverybot_url}}">Login</a>
-      <a target="_blank" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" href="{{site.start_url}}">Signup</a>
+      <a target="_blank" class="text-gray-dark" href="{{site.start_url}}">Get started</a>
     </div>
     <div class="hide-md hide-lg hide-xl">
       <a target="_blank" class="btn btn-sm btn-primary" href="{{site.start_url}}">Signup</a>
@@ -38,9 +38,9 @@
         <nav class="menu position-absolute right-0 mr-2 mt-2 box-shadow-medium" style="z-index: 1000; width: 200px;">
           <a class="menu-item" href="/docs/">Docs</a>
           <a class="menu-item" href="/blog/">Blog</a>
-          <a target="_blank" class="menu-item" href="{{site.pricing_url}}">Pricing</a>
+          <!-- <a target="_blank" class="menu-item" href="{{site.pricing_url}}">Pricing</a> -->
           <a target="_blank" class="menu-item" href="{{site.deliverybot_url}}">Login</a>
-          <a target="_blank" class="menu-item" href="{{site.start_url}}">Signup</a>
+          <a target="_blank" class="menu-item" href="{{site.start_url}}">Get started</a>
         </nav>
       </details>
     </div>

_posts/2020-02-14-deliverybot-goes-open-source.md

@@ -1,24 +1,22 @@
 ---
 layout: post
-title: Going open source
-description: Deliverybot is going open source.
+title: Deliverybot goes open source 🎉
+description: An update on Deliverybot for 2020. The project is going fully open source and focusing on a self hosted model.
 light: true
 ---
 
 # Deliverybot goes open source 🎉
 
 As stated in the last post I've been incredibly happy with the success of Deliverybot so far. The project is continuing to grow and gain traction as people really want a simple way of wiring up their continuous delivery pipelines from GitHub.
 
-However, the project has hit a bit of a snag. As of right now there is no path to becoming verified on the GitHub store. I think this is because of some changes internally at GitHub that I'm not aware of. Right now it does not look feasible to have billing done via the GitHub marketplace in the near future. What this means is that Deliverybot will be eventually introducing billing for the hosted service using a custom provider, likely Stripe. This will involve some significant changes to the application and time invested to change the app to support this new structure.
+However, the project has hit a bit of a snag. As of right now there is no path to becoming verified on the GitHub marketplace. The verified badge is one of the key features in the success of Deliverybot as a hosted GitHub addon. It allows billing to be enabled via the GitHub marketplace and allows potential customers to feel confident in their choice that they can securely use the project.
 
-While these changes are underway Deliverybot will still be fully available at [https://app.deliverybot.dev](https://app.deliverybot.dev) and no interruptions at all are expected to your daily workflows.
+**Because of this Deliverybot is going to adapt over the next few months into a project that you will deploy yourself on your own infrastructure.** This means that Deliverybot will also be going fully open source to allow for self hosted projects 🎉.
 
-While making an investment in the core behind Deliverybot I'm going to take the time to modularize the code to allow for making the full functionality of deliverybot open source 🎉.
+The https://github.com/deliverybot/deliverybot repository will be the main repository hosting deliverybot and all subpackages required to run it. It will also contain a highly modular setup which will allow for deploying to any type of infrastructure and allow the community to contribute new functionality and modules. Immediate releases will include a Firebase deployment target as well as a Kubernetes deployment target.
 
-The https://github.com/deliverybot/deliverybot repository will be the main repository hosting deliverybot and all subpackages required to run it. It will also contain a highly modular setup which will allow for deploying to any type of infrastructure and allow the community to contribute new functionality and modules.
+While these changes are underway Deliverybot will still be fully available at [https://app.deliverybot.dev](https://app.deliverybot.dev) and no interruptions at all are expected to your daily workflows. **The free hosted version of the service will be available at least until August 2020.** After this period the freely available service will be removed and can be replaced easily with a deployment on your own infrastructure. During this period the main focus on the development side will be providing simple and easy installs so that you can get Deliverybot deployed onto any infrastructure in a matter of minutes.
 
-I'm excited for this next year as I think the project will continue to grow even larger with these changes in place :). Thanks to all the early adopters for your support so far!
+I'm excited for this next year as I think the project will continue to grow even larger with these changes in place :). Having the ability to introduce more collaborators and have features be completed by the community is a big addition and will allow for many more contributions than I am able to provide. Thanks to all the early adopters for your support so far!
 
----
-
-A note on pricing: This does mean that the hosted service does not have a timeline for introducing pricing at this time.
+Please reach out to [support@deliverybot.dev](mailto:support@deliverybot.dev) if you have any questions.

docs/deploying.md

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+---
+layout: page
+title: Deploying
+---
+
+# Deploying
+
+Deliverybot is a [Probot](https://probot.github.io){:target="_blank"}
+application that responds to events from GitHub and triggers deployments based
+on actions in the application and check status events from GitHub.
+
+It requires storage providers to be implemented as well as deployment
+infrastructure to deploy the code. The following deployment targets are
+implemented already to get you started quickly:
+
+## Deployment targets
+
+- [Firebase][firebase]
+- [Kubernetes][kubernetes]
+
+## Building A deployment target
+
+Building a deployment target requires implementing a set of services defined in
+[`@deliverybot/core`][core] and then providing an HTTP server implementation
+that allows Deliverybot to receive HTTP traffic.
+
+The [`@deliverybot/run`][run] package provides a local implementation for
+spinning up services and the HTTP interface for local development. Use this
+package as a starting point.
+
+The `load` function exported from [`@deliverybot/core`][core] takes the services
+you implement along with the apps which provide the main functionality to give
+back a probot and express object to wire up to your infrastructure. A basic
+example of booting Deliverybot:
+
+```javascript
+import { load, Options, localServices } from "@deliverybot/core";
+import { apps } from "@deliverybot/app";
+
+const options: Options = { ... };
+load(localServices(), apps, options);
+```
+
+The main thing that you will need to replace when deploying the application is
+the services implementation. The [services][services] file provides the
+interfaces required by Deliverybot for your infrastructure.
+
+### Extending functionality
+
+As mentioned the `apps` argument is where all of the functionality is wired up.
+You can easily extend Deliverybot with your own implementations and services
+by adding an app into the load array.
+
+[`@deliverybot/core`][core] provides information and documentation on wiring up
+a new app for providing additional functionality.
+
+
+[firebase]: https://github.com/deliverybot/deliverybot/tree/master/packages/firebase
+[kubernetes]: https://github.com/deliverybot/deliverybot/tree/master/packages/firebase
+[run]: https://github.com/deliverybot/deliverybot/tree/master/packages/run
+[core]: https://github.com/deliverybot/deliverybot/tree/master/packages/core
+[services]: https://github.com/deliverybot/deliverybot/blob/master/packages/core/src/services.ts

docs/quickstart.md

@@ -7,21 +7,21 @@ title: Quickstart
 
 Deliverybot is a GitHub app, to get started with deployments we need a
 repository and to install the Deliverybot app onto that repo. The below guide
-will walk you through getting an example repository setup.
+will walk you through deploying deliverybot and getting an example repository
+setup.
 
-### 1. [Fork the example repository][example]{:target="_blank"}
+### 1. [Deploy the Deliverybot GitHub app][app]
+
+Deploy the Deliverybot GitHub application to an infrastructure of your choice.
+
+### 2. [Fork the example repository][example]{:target="_blank"}
 
 Visit one of the example repositories and create a new fork:
 
 - [Basic example that doesn't actually deploy][example]{:target="_blank"}.
 - [GitOps example with FluxCD][example-gitops]{:target="_blank"}.
 - [Helm example with actions and pr environments][example-helm]{:target="_blank"}.
 
-### 2. [Install the Deliverybot GitHub app][app]{:target="_blank"}
-
-Sign up and connect the application to your GitHub
-repository.
-
 ### 3. Push a commit to watch the workflows kick off!
 
 Go to your repository and push a commit.
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ our [integrations page][integrations]{:target="_blank"} for more information.
 Once you have a working example read through the [guide](/docs/guide/) for more
 information on how to setup complex workflows.
 
-[app]: {{site.start_url}}
+[app]: /docs/deploying/
 [how]: /docs/how-it-works/
 [example]: https://github.com/deliverybot/example
 [example-helm]: https://github.com/deliverybot/example-helm