[kde-doc-english] Please stop updating projects.kde.org->quickgit.kde.org

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:32 PM, Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote:
> Il 04 aprile 2016 10:11:39 CEST, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> ha scritto:
>>On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Luigi Toscano
>><luigi.toscano at tiscali.it> wrote:
>>> Yuri Chornoivan ha scritto:
>>>> написане Sun, 03 Apr 2016 13:19:35 +0300, Luigi Toscano
>>>> <luigi.toscano at tiscali.it>:
>>>>
>>>>> My understanding is that quickgit.kde.org will be replaced again by
>>>>> phabricator browser, so we will have to do this again. Moreover,
>>the old URL
>>>>> is a proper redirect now.
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Regretfully, this works for the main page only. Links to the files
>>are broken.
>>>>
>>>> Example (Okteta):
>>>>
>>>>
>>https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdesdk/okteta/repository/revisions/master/show/kasten/controllers/view/structures/examples/okteta/structures
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It is good to wait for the new Phabricator, but I prefer the correct
>>links
>>>> now. And yes, I can do it again (change the links) as soon as the
>>problems
>>>> with Phabricator browser (?) will be resolved.
>>>
>>> I didn't mean that we need to wait for the new Phabricator. Given
>>that the
>>> changes are going into master only anyway, we could wait a bit (which
>>could be
>>> something like from few hours to few days) to collect the
>>requirements (like
>>> the one above) and see if it is possible to have an URL which will
>>redirect to
>>> the proper place, so quickgit for now and Phabricator later, like
>>> commits.kde.org does.
>>>
>>> If we don't even ask or discuss, it won't never happen.
>>
>>I'll wait for the list of requirements to be gathered...
>>In any event, commits.kde.org/<repository name> is a valid redirect
>>url for the repository browser for a given repository.
>>
>>No idea what we would do for file/directory browsing URLs, as commits
>>was intended for commits.kde.org/repo/commitHash...
>
> I was using commits.kde.org as an example of immutable address survived and will survive various transitions of the underlying webapp.
> So the question is: would you (sysadmin) provide an reliable URL (which could be still the old projects.kde.org) to access a repository and a path insidie a repository, useful now for quickgit and later for Diffusion?

For repository, and branch I see no issue.
I'd like to see the use case of file paths though as i'm not sure how
much they're needed.

>
> Ciao
>
> --
> Luigi

Thanks,
Ben