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sr #107183: Manage web pages with something else than CVS

Submitter:  Robert Millan <robertmh>
Submitted:  Sun 27 Dec 2009 06:31:22 PM UTC
Votes: 10
 
Category:  None Priority:  5 - Normal
Severity:  3 - Normal Status:  Wont Do
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Operating System:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Wed 30 Dec 2009 06:56:32 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi,

Could you leave the bug open then?  This way at least situation is documented.


Robert Millan <robertmh>
Wed 30 Dec 2009 09:54:58 AM UTC, comment #2: 

I feel a bit guilty as I advised Robert to ask the Savannah hackers for this, although I knew in advance what the reply would be.  At least he deserves some explanation why things are what they are.  I'll try to describe that from my POV.

Initially, Savannah was only for GNU packages.  The webpages under gnu.org/software/<package> were maintained mostly by the GNU webmasters, along with the rest of the site.  GNU maintainers typically only dealt with their code; only a few of them tried to keep their webpages up to date.

So the Savannah WebCVS setup was made in a way that all members of the "www" project (i.e. all GNU webmasters) have write access to the projects' web repositories.  (The implementation is complex, I think, and very different from gna.org.)  This continued after the inception of the "nongnu" area, and is still true today.  It was also handy for orphaned packages -- putting a notice that a new maintainer is needed is a good thing in general.

However, we (we == the GNU webmasters, or more precisely, at least Karl and I) no longer find it acceptable to edit projects' webpages without the maintainers' consent.  It is intrusive, pushy and simply wrong.  The maintainers know best about their package, and maintain.texi contains (for a long time now) instructions that maintaining the website of the project is the maintainer's responsibility.

So the current Savannah setup for the web repositories is unnecessary, and needless to say -- a burden for many people who would like to use Subversion, Bzr, Git, etc.  There were several requests in the past to use !CVS for a project website.  But as Sylvain says, it is not trivial to do it, and it's not on top of the TODO list.  I hope it could be done some day in the foreseeable future.

Yavor Doganov <yavor>
Sun 27 Dec 2009 06:34:48 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi!

That is not possible with the current infrastructure.  The Savannah Hackers and FSF Sysadmins would need to coordinate such a change, but currently other tasks have higher priority.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Sun 27 Dec 2009 06:31:22 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hi,

The GRUB project has moved to Bazaar, but website is still hosted in CVS.  We'd like to maintain the website in Bazaar as well.  Can you enable it?  Is this possible at all?

Thanks

Robert Millan <robertmh>

 

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