Website migration to SVN

[Olaf Schmidt]

[Dirk Mueller, Montag, 4. April 2005 12:49]
> 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.
>

OK, convinced.

> furthermore I think its rather bad if www/ (or web/) contains scripts.

Yes, I fully agree.

The www already contains four different sorts of stuff within the same 
location (the main kde.org site, subdomains, the media directory, the 
docbook directory), and we should make this better rather than worse.

> 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.
>

I am not sure what you mean with this.

Do you 
a) want to deal with this at a later date?
b) object to the new structure we agreed to on kde-www, but not 
necessarily to other changes?
c) object to ever changing it because it wasn't changed in the past?
d) don't want to deal with it now, and are unsure about changing it later?

Anyway, you are right that the threads about this have become much longer 
than originally intended. In the last weeks, I explained several times to 
the kde-www, kde-core-devel and sysadmin lists why the structure of www 
is broken and why we want to change it.

I won't persue this any further.

> reading this whole thread took me ten times as much time.

I am sorry to hear this. I wasn't sure who was working on this, so I kept 
sending mails in case some of the topics were forgotten.

And I am similarly frustrated for having spend so much time thinking about 
the repository structure and explaining we we need to change it, and to 
find out that I would have better spend my time doing other things.

> 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.

As a member of the webteam, I do realize that administrating the web 
servers is a great task, and I highly appreciate it.

And I really know the feeling of fixing web site stuff without people 
realizing.

> Or did you notice that http://websvn.kde.org/ went alive ?

I saw http://svn.kde.org/ several weeks ago, and I used it several times 
to get a feeling for svn.

Currently I am having problems when I try to view code or get diffs on 
http://websvn.kde.org/. There is always the error message "No default 
branch" (but I am in trunk).
For example:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/arts/INSTALL?rev=405733&r1=136561&r2=405733

Olaf

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