Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

gh-pages branch missing?

Open
#112 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github, python
Domain
devops, documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the old PRs targeting the gh-pages branch and the current Read the Docs page. Compare that setup with the cmocean tree in matplotlib.github.com, then determine what is needed to restore a self-contained gh-pages branch. Done means the branch exists and the website can be served from this repository.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

I see there were some old PRs targeting the gh-pages branch, but it doesn't appear to exist any more. I also see a readthedocs page, but it seems mostly empty.

We currently serve https://matplotlib.org/cmocean out of the matplotlib.github.com tree, but that seems less-than-ideal for updates, as it's about a 10GB clone.

If you can restore the gh-pages branch, then I can change the website to start serving from here, which should be easier for you as the docs would be self-contained on this repo.

Dominant language
Python
Stars
269
Forks
54
No merged PRs in 30d

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from matplotlib/cmocean

All issues in matplotlib/cmocean

Similar issues

More Python issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.