Re: english/events/materials/posters - please explain!!
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> We do not have the sources for some (notably posters) of this
> material since it was made using non-free stuff so we only have the final
> results (quite nice in most cases).
*hmmm*
> This is quite an exaggeration. The materials/ dir can be avoided
> when checking out from CVS. Even more, the CVS server could avoid sending
> pdf/ps.gz files automatically.
So - what option do I need to exclude it? I wasn't able to find it in a
quick search across the info pages.... I haven't found a way to avoid
it.
I still don't see the sense to have that huge binary files in the CVS.
After all, how often do they change? So, why revision-control for them?
> Are we going to limit the contents in our website depending on the
> web mirror's capacities? In any case, I agree mirror admins should be
> informed of this (tell me the correct channels) and we should look into a
> way for mirrors to point back to the main site if they do not want to
> retrieve that much (maybe by publishing it only on the main site and using
> absolute links).
That would be the same like publishing it on any other host and using
absolute links. Still wondering why we need that much data in the cvs.
It's not _only_ the mirrors, but also the local repositories. And there
the increase is much more than just 10%, usually you have only the
english and your language checked out.
> In any case, if all other debian-www people think this shouldn't
> be on debian.org, by all means, remove it. I only dedicated this one of my
> vacation days and was up until 3 am yesterday to ensure that everything
> compiled/worked fine before commiting (not that there aren't any errors
> around though)
I don't care if it's on debian.org but if it's in cvs. I understand why
the images are in cvs so the page itself can be fully displayed - but I
don't understand why we need this files (that are unlikely to change /
we don't really need revision control for them) are in cvs at all. They
are not displayed inline in the pages, they stand for themself. So it
doesn't make sense to me to have them in the webwml tree.
If it should be mirrored (and I'd like to say yes there - it's not that
unusual that right when you need it the main page is down) is another
question - and I don't really care for at the moment.
So long,
Alfie
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