Comments on current kde-www

[Christoph Cullmann]

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On Friday 18 October 2002 18:27, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Friday October 18, 2002 09:06, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > On Friday 18 October 2002 13:10, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > 1. The change to family.inc was completely redundant, and adds
> > > complexity to something that was going to be simple to maintain.
> >
> > Fine, but to change all links on all serverpages if one server fails and
> > you need to upload it somewhere under a other domain/href is "easy" ?
>
> Why would we need to change any urls if a server fails?  If, say, the
> usability.kde.org server fails, we can just switch the DNS to point
> usability to a different server, and set up a virtual host on that
> different server.  All usability.kde.org URLs get preserved.
And for mirrors ? ??????? And for moves at all (if one page without a 
*.kde.org domain located on one server moved to an other, with an other url 
?)

>
> Do read what Martin Konold has been writing.
Perhaps you should read my arguments.

>
> > > 2. A global config.inc is going to be a maintenance hassle:  It makes
> > > it impossible to keep local sites config in cvs, it centralizes site
> > > data away from the rest of the site, it adds a redundant array.  This
> > > is a steep cost for a debatable mirroring scheme.
> >
> > That's simply not true, you can have a own config.php on each server,
> > that the current default is in cvs is not a big problem, if we have the
> > page up running move it to the attic.
>
> But that's still more work ont he server admin.  No longer can he just keep
> his stuff in cvs.  He has to keep some in cvs, and some out of cvs.
>
> Before your changes, that wasn't necessary.
No, you are right, before my change the pages simply only worked on the 
original servers, no mirros, nothing will work.

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Christoph Cullmann
Kate/KDE developer
cullmann at kde.org
http://kate.kde.org
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