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.
>
> Do read what Martin Konold has been writing.
>
> > > 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.
BTW: for the kde.org normal servers, we can simply let a config-defaults.inc 
in CVS which matches our own servers need and let the cron script on our 
servers update the dirs + rename it to config.inc, other mirrors can use 
their own without any problem (and could even automate the generation of 
their own config.inc out of the alway up to date config-defaults.inc


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