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

[Neil Stevens]

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On Thursday October 10, 2002 05:12, Jason Bainbridge wrote:
> - 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.

Why?  What's wrong with usability.kde.org being the same as 
www.kde.org/usability, especially since now they're going to look the 
same?

In fact, if the sites are going to be made to look and act the same, it's 
probably easier to have them all in the same tree than not, to ease the 
use of shared includes.

> - 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.

KDE's ACLs do work per-directory.  I have write access only to www/kde-ev, 
not to the whole www.

> - 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 so it no longer represents their structure are we actually making the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?

So if KDE makes a mistake and puts a page in the wrong place, it can never 
ever reorganize?  Where do you draw the line?

If this reorg is done right, it can last more years than the current 
anarchy has lasted.

> - 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.

Why a new module?

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
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