Website migration to SVN

[Dirk Mueller]

On Sunday 03 April 2005 22:54, Olaf Schmidt wrote:

>   bugs -> web/sites/bugs

I don't think that this is a good idea, nor does it make sense. the bugs 
module doesn't contain a website. its a collection of random bits and scripts 
that are in the back end of bugs.kde.org together with a few files of the 
template. But they're not a website, and they don't act like such. 

furthermore I think its rather bad if www/ (or web/) contains scripts. There 
are a lot of weird country-local mirrors of our web page out there that most 
likely have an unsafe or broken apache configuration. if they have the 
xbithack activated those files might get executed upon retrieval. Thats bad, 
and we should avoid it. 

Furthermore I don't think its necessary to make the move overly complicated by 
pre-planning tons of web related restructurings in advance that didn't happen 
over the last few months either. 

And don't worry about the webservers. Given that I maintain the server side of 
at least 70% of all kde.org webpages this will be the least of our problems 
with the move. There will be plenty of things to fix afterwards and changing 
a couple of docroots and adjusting the update script is a one minute job, and 
reading this whole thread took me ten times as much time. 

Trust me, the tricky details are much more hidden in all the scripting we 
have, and that will be a lot of pain in the neck until we re-discovered them 
all and fixed them. 

And yes, I'm working on the SVN move since quite some time already and I whine 
about it because its a buttload of work behind the back that nobody notices 
anyway. Or did you notice that http://websvn.kde.org/ went alive ?


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Dirk//\