Do we really need compass?

[xMartin]

What exactly do we need Compass for in addition to SASS?

If I get this right, Jekyll (and thus Github pages) has built-in support for SASS but not for Compass. In out current setup Compass needs to be executed separate from Jekyll and both the sources and the output needs to be committed. I think it could be much simpler and less error-prone without Compass.

[gnunicorn]

compass is from a time when neither jekyll nor github supported SASS yet. With todays setup we do not need it anymore, no.

I am totally in favor of moving that over, also to smaller and cleaner framework like bourbon.io .