Needs directory index

[paulproteus]

@karlht thinks this is really really important.

[karlht]

Specifically, https://openhatch.github.io/ is a 404.

[shaunagm]

Won't we have to create an openhatch.github.io repository to fix this? We totally can, but to my knowledge it's not something we'd do inside the open-source-comes-to-campus repository.

[karlht]

An index page in the gh-pages branch of this repo should be sufficient, I think.

[shaunagm]

Something other than http://openhatch.github.io/open-source-comes-to-campus/?

It is admittedly not a very informative index page.

[shaunagm]

The way github pages work (my apologies if you already know this) is that you can create "project pages" by using the github pages branch, but they user the domain name of the username.github.io. Which can in turn be modified by creating a username.github.io repository. Hence why I think that to get an index page at openhatch.github.io we'd need to make an openhatch.github.io repository.

[karlht]

Ah, yes. This repo wouldn't have control over https://openhatch.github.io/index ... I see what you're getting at, now.

(And I appreciate the exposition on how github pages work.)

[shaunagm]

I think you're right that we should have an index there. And there's no obvious place for an organization-wide issue, so it might as well be filed here. I'll keep this open until I make an openhatch.github.io repository with a basic index page.

[karlht]

Thanks very much for the quick response!

[paulproteus]

Ah hah. So the fix would be in another repo. Intriguing; thanks all.

[shaunagm]

Now I'm second-guessing this fix. Making a whole repo just to have an index page? :/

[karlht]

I'm not wedded to this particular solution, if there are other ways to make the projects discoverable when you don't know their exact URL.

[shaunagm]

Actually, I think it would be useful to have a openhatch.github.io barebones repository, with a README/index that covers all the actual active repositories.