Re: DDP restoration plan proposal (medium-term move to Alioth)
Hi,
I will post my thought too but ...
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:53:43AM -0500, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org> writes:
>
> > Ok, here's my proposal on how should DDP be restored:
> >
> > 1.- Since more than one review has been done of the HEAD branch, restore
> > the CVS service for the DDP at gluck (without pserver access).
>
> This needs to be done quickly. Can I help expedite it?
>
> Personally I would have recommended just moving right to alioth, but
> I wasn't around to recommend it. It would have broken web updates but
> at least we'd be in a situation where authors can do updates.
IMHO, DDP is relatively static. I am thinking more like that I would
like take this opportunity to clean up DDP while restoring it.
At least consistency of directory names can be gained.
Also considering SGML --> XML move in the future, "manuals.sgml" may be
better called "manuals". These are simple change.
> > 2.- Send a notice asking for DDP authors/translators to
> > a) review the current HEAD branch themselves
> > b) commit any changes done to documents that might still be at
> > local copies
> > c) tell them that the DDP cvs server will be moved in the short
> > term to Alioth.
> > This notice should not be sent to -doc, but probably to -i18n and to
> > -devel-announce.
> >
> > [This advance notice means that the manuals.sgml/ directory at the DDP
> > project in Alioth, should _not_ be used until the move is complete]
>
> Ok.
>
> > 3.- Work out together with the Debian admins how should klecker update the
> > DDP pages once the project has moved to Alioth [1]
>
> I have some ideas about that. I don't really see why we can't have
> the doc build process run as a low priority user, and install under a
> prefix such as ~luser/tmp/ddp-root . Then the user which has RW to
> the web will just 'cp -ar' those files into place.
>
> The proposals to split into 2 CVS areas, one for makefiles, one for
> docs, seems to be utterly unmaintainable.
I actually thought about this. This was too simplistic in
retrospective.
> > [1] This might mean keeping scripts that run periodically through cron
> > (Makefiles under manuals.sgml + utils/) at a CVS in gluck. Debian-doc
> > members should be responsible for merging the changes done with those files
> > at Alioth (if any)
>
> I don't understand what you mean about merging here. Does it relate to
> point (4), the move over?
> > 4.- (once 3 is cleared up and after a reasonable time, a month?) Move all
> > the data from gluck to Alioth and disable the data in the CVS there. So
> > that Alioth holds the canonical copy. Again, notify people at -i18n and
> > -devel-announce of the move.
>
> Are you just intending to tar up the repository itself (*,v files) and
> untar them on alioth? That's the best way to move CVS repositories,
> IMHO.
I am making few mock tar right now.
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