should we turn down GH pages?

[ben-schwen]

Currently we deploy Github Pages not to mixed up with our GL Pages

AFAIR this was because we were considering moving away from GLCI.

Do we still need this or can we retire/archive it? Should we use it as backup repo, e.g. checking if Gitlab is reachable and otherwise try to download from Github in update_dev_pkg?

[jangorecki]

Not really, we had it disabled already, and then re enabled.

I would keep it as extra deployment environment. If we want to explore alternatives to pkgdown we can host them simultaneously, like litedown or base R.

Now we have a base R html manual as a website posted there: https://rdatatable.github.io/data.table/
And "unstable" master branch R repo.
I actually use it myself because it is easier to CTRL+F there.

On contrary to browsing big pages on GitHub.com (like source code) this big page in simple html works very smooth in mobile browsers.

It sometimes happened that GL wasn't successfully deploying, then it is extra backup environment.