Re: [Savannah-hackers] webcvs

[Vincent Caron]

James E. Blair wrote:
> We would like to put the webcvs repositories in the same chroot
> environment as the source code repositories.  How is access to the web
> cvs area determined?  Is it that the same developers who can use the
> source code repository can use the web repository?  Are there any
> other things that make the web cvs repository different?

  As far as I remember, the source and web repositories are treated 
equally wrt. to access rights. The web repository was a single one, 
making it easier to update the web site (a simple cvs export would do 
the job). It was raising some issues, since everybody wanted to tweak 
this repository his own way (think mail on commit for instance).

  It is IMHO a good idea to let projects have their own web repository. 
Then we can have our own web-update backend which can be as complex and 
customizable as we want (web site layout always go crazy anyway), 
without bothering developers with symlinks, funky cvs paths or such.

  The basic rules are : <gnu-project> maps to 
http://www.gnu.org/software/<gnu-project> and <nongnu-project> to 
http://www.nongnu.org/<nongnu-project>. Then you have a bunch of 
exceptions that were installed on demand, mainly for 'special' GNU 
projects. I suggest to contact the gnu.org web maintainers for the 
special part.