CFP link gives 404

[rossmounce]

Clicked on CFP link & got 404.
Changed to what is hopefully the correct(?) link

[brocktopus]

Just to be sure: the html link was broken? http://push.cwcon.org/cfp.html ?

[rossmounce]

The link is fine when this is all implemented on http://push.cwcon.org but, I (and perhaps many others) currently first arrive to the github rather than http://push.cwcon.org . On the github (specifically, https://github.com/cwcon/push/blob/master/index.md ) the link to CFP 404's.

I think I understand the issue now, and perhaps I'm wrong but is there perhaps a way to make the link both resolve on github & in the real implementation perhaps?

[sellout]

One option would be to use an absolute URL. A better one (that might not work without poking the Github devs a bit) is to use a Wiki-style link, [[CFP]], and have the translator expand it to .html or .md as appropriate.

[karlstolley]

The .md link is definitely out, because that would in turn break on the actual site.

Here are two other possibilities:

1. Changing the default branch shown on GitHub from master to gh-pages, so that the compiled HTML source (rather than the GitHub-rendered Markdown) is shown at https://github.com/cwcon/push/ (what's currently at https://github.com/cwcon/push/tree/gh-pages would display instead, probably with some more welcoming edits to the current README.md found there).
2. Add a line to the YAML of each and every Markdown source file that points to the live site and advises people not to follow links. That's a wonkier solution, and the YAML is rendered as Markdown on GitHub anyway. But I'm posting this idea in hopes that it might trigger others into other, more useful lines of thinking.