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Introduction After setting up build automation we also wanted it not to happen only when updating the documentation repository. Besides hosting documentation, Elegant website also serves as a live demo of the current release. This meant, the website should be regenerated and updated every time when a documented is added or edited, and also when Elegant theme is updated. Github and Travis doesn’t offer dependent builds out of the box, so the trick goes to ‘signal’ via a github token to trigger a Travis-CI build. ...

Background Elegant theme for pelican has been undergoing a big change from individual-driven effort to community, as part of this, one of the tasks to accomplish, has been the decoupling from author blog to project site for documentation. As we wanted this process to be both automated and allowed us to demonstrate via eat-your-own-dog-food that the theme works and how it looks, the idea was to automate the rendering of Pelican website with new documents. ...