This is the source repository for the GAP website http://www.gap-system.org.

The GAP website is NOT hosted on GitHub pages, and therefore there is NO branch named gh-pages here. We host it elsewhere, but we use GitHub for collaborative work on the website. We welcome contributions ranging from fixed typos and updated details to suggestions regarding the structure of the website and its improved look.

For small improvements (e.g. correcting details and fixing typos), the procedure is as simple as just submitting an issue or pull request here. Please take into account that some files, in particular package overview pages in Packages/<pkgname>.mixer are generated automatically from the meta-date in PackageInfo.g files. Incorrect information there should not be changed via pull requests, but reported to package authors instead. In doubt, please submit an issue before making a pull request, and we will be able to advise on further steps.

For larger changes, it will be useful to build a local version of the GAP website first. The GAP website uses the the Python script called Mixer that uses a C library to parse XML documents and generate HTML pages. Mixer is contained in the following repository:

https://github.com/gap-system/Mixer

or can be downloaded from this page:

http://www.math.rwth-aachen.de/~Max.Neunhoeffer/Computer/Software/mixer.html

To build Mixer, you will need a C compiler (for compiling parts of the Mixer) and a Python interpreter (for running the Mixer). With Mixer, you may run the mixer.py script (probably with -f option to rebuild everything regardless the timestamps) inside the GapWWW working directory to check how produced html pages look like in your browser before committing and pushing the changes.

To set up a local copy of the Gap website (except files that are copied from the GAP distribution, i.e. manuals of GAP and its packages), do the following:

git clone https://github.com/gap-system/Mixer.git
cd Mixer
make
cd ..

git clone https://github.com/gap-system/GapWWW.git
cd GapWWW
../Mixer/mixer.py -f

This will process all *.mixer files in GapWWW and its subdirectories. Now you shoud be able to browse local version of the GAP website by opening GapWWW/index.html in your browser.