Why use public GitHub ?

[Zarquan]

Current configuration uses the public GitHub service to store the notebooks.

The GitHub service consists of two parts:

• The standard git version control service
• The public GitHub website user interface

Using the version control aspect of git is useful, when viewed within Zeppelin

• We can store the notebooks outside the main code tree
• We can see differences between versions (in Zeppelin)
• We can checkout a specific version of a notebook (in Zeppelin)
• We can edit and save a new version of a notebook (in Zeppelin)

There are some aspects of the public GitHub website that are useful:

• If you know the name you can get a public http:// URL to link to the json file online
• In theory we could use the GitHub website to log issues about the notebooks, but this has limited benefit if we can't read the notebooks in the public GitHub

The way that Zeppelin serialises the notebooks to JSON means we can't really make use of the public GitHub website:

• All commits are done by the same GitHub user account
• We can't see differences between versions outside Zeppelin
• We can't checkout a copy of the notebook and edit it outside Zeppelin

Question is should we keep the links to the public GitHub repository or try using something else?