Hi! Together with Raphaël Hertzog, I've been working on coverting the webwml repository to Subversion for a little while now. Although Subversion is not such a big improvement over CVS as we might have liked, other systems, like git, have certain disadvantages (which mainly have to do with the possibility of partial checkout, a steeper learning curve for translators, and the compatibility with the current scripts) that are hard to overcome at this time. In any case, i think moving to Subversion is an improvement. A testing repository is currently available at Alioth: * http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/webwml * svn://svn.debian.org/webwml/ * svn+ssh://user@svn.debian.org/svn/webwml Most of the people who have been working on the website should have write access already through the svn+ssh interface. Note that this is a scratch repository. It was converted from CVS a few weeks ago, so some wml files are out of date. Feel free to try it out and commit stuff there, but keep in mind that ALL CHANGES WILL BE LOST when we make the transition for real. I've been working on converting the perl scripts. Most of those are done, but I'm stil working on the smart_change.pl, touch_files.pl, and touch_translations.pl. Please test any of the other scripts you're familiar with! Some have been rewritten for scratch almost, and I'm not entirely sure if all functionality that was there in the previous versions, is still present and functional. Please let me know if you find a bug, or would like to have some functionality added. One other thing I haven't tested yet, is hte actual building of the website. I wouldn't be altogether surprised if some of the wml files and embedded perl script depend on accessing CVS/Entries or something like that in order to build correctly. Please let me know if you find such a case. Depending on how the testing goes, we'll set a date for the real transition later (probably in a few weeks). Happy testing! Bas. -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bas Zoetekouw | GPG key: 0644fab7 | |----------------------------| Fingerprint: c1f5 f24c d514 3fec 8bf6 | | bas@debian.org | a2b1 2bae e41f 0644 fab7 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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