Structure of our websites (in CVS + on the servers)

[Jason Bainbridge]

> Christoph Cullmann <cullmann at babylon2k.de> wrote:
> And does the user really want to spend time navigating enforced
> hierarchies anyway?  I think it's much better to have
> http://dot.kde.org/ instead of >http://www.kde.org/areaname/dot/.
>You don't read my mail, I never said I want to remove the >*.kde.org domains, 
>but I want to have the directory structure clean. yeah, >we could continue and 
>senseless dumb every new app and *.kde.org domain into >www/???? 

I can definitely see the advantage of having a better structure within CVS for the family of KDE sites but just have a few queries/concerns about the practicality of doing so.

- First to avoid a mess under http://kde.org I think a new top level module would need to be created eg. Websites and then the current www module would have to be under there with the rest of the other modules. Otherwise http://usability.kde.org would also be http://kde.org/usability and that could cause problems.

- Can CVS handle security on directories or can you have nested modules? I imagine at the moment that there are quite a lot of maintainers and I wouldn't imagine we would want all of them having write access to the whole of the new all in one www module.

- Just how hard is it going to be to re-arrange CVS so we don't mess up too many existing links (I'm thinking external to KDE and within people's bookmarks)? If we do keep the existing links but re-arrange CVS so it no longer represents their structure are we actually making the strcture of CVS any better?

- Would it be feasible to create a new module with the new structure and gradually move sites over with the assistance of individual maintainers? I think if all of it was done at once and with the number of people involved it would be quite an error prone process.

As I said I like the idea of a better structure with CVS for our websites but I just want to make sure we get it right. :)

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Jason Bainbridge
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