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Re: Setting up a staging ground for etch release



On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:09:45PM +0100, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> It was suggested to set up a page again that can be used to test
> the website's appearance after the etch release like we did before
> sarge. I'm currently setting this up on of my servers again.

Notice that not only the webpages in the WWW CVS need to change, some other
documents (FAQ and Project History, at least) have to be updated too.

> Now I was wondering wether people think it would be worth
> the additional complexity to set up an etch CVS branch for
> this staging. The advantage is that one need not be so wary
> about breaking the current webpage because the content is
> separated, the dis-advantage is that all people wanting to
> work on this (e.g. probably most of the translators) have
> to checkout the second branch, too, have to keep track of
> changes to both branches, etc.

I would stay away from branches and use WML powerful if-then-else features
instead.

Regards 

Javier

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