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FAQ: Motivate the 'YYYY-MM-DD-site' pattern
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Raniere Silva committed Mar 25, 2016
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Because any particular user can only have one fork of a repository,
but instructors frequently need to work on several workshops at once.

* *Why does the workshop repository name have to follow the `YYYY-MM-DD-site` pattern?*

This makes it easy for coordinators to track workshops in
spreadsheets for instructor training.
There are [plans to move that coordination into AMY][amy-training],
but until that happens this pattern makes it easy to sort workshops
by date without requiring an additional start-date column.

* *Why use the `gh-pages` branch instead of `master`?

Because [GitHub automatically publishes `gh-pages`](https://help.github.com/articles/creating-project-pages-manually/)
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* *Help, my github.io website is not updating!*
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[amy-training]: https://github.com/numfocus/gsoc/blob/0f76b09e1147d9dc5d55c4fb822639740fdaf58f/2016/ideas-list-swc.md#manage-workflow-for-instructor-training

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