Re: Web page still says the main repo is bzr...

[Bob Proulx]

Thanks Perry for letting me know about this thread.

Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs
> > 
> > still seems to indicate that the main repository uses bzr and not
> > git. Perhaps someone can update it?

> Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> > It referenced the git repo earlier today. It looks like some automatic
> > procedure has overwritten the efforts of whoever edited it.

There are lots of automated things that happen but this doesn't happen
to be one of those.  I see that this is talking about the text on the
project page that resides in the "long description" section.  This is
a standard PHP-database form-display process.  The "long description"
is stored in the db.  It is updated through the PHP code.  It doesn't
exist as a file on disk.  The text is updated in the db.

> I would do so, but I don't have the required access.

You are not in the project admin list.  But any of the listed "Project
Admins" on the project page may do it.

  https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/

Stefan, Eli, Miles, Francesco, Kim?  One of you want to do it?  Since
there are five of you that can do this and only one of me I will avoid
doing the update myself and instead teach those of you reading this
how to do it. :-)

I assume you have the default Savannah theme.  Hover the mouse over
"Main" and you will see "Edit Public Info" as one of the submenu
items.  Select that link.  It will present a form edit page.  The text
you want to change is the "Long Description" text area field.  Submit
when you have edited that and it will save to the database and have
immediate effect.

The long description for emacs includes information about how to get
the source code.  It currently talks about both bzr and git.  I think
that is great and I would simply update it to talk about the current
preferred form.  For other projects if you look you will find that
they don't talk about that there.  With most random projects they just
have a "Source Code" menu link navigation item.  Hovering there will
display "Use Git", "Use Bzr", "Use CVS", or whatever.  The Emacs page
currently shows all three there because all three features are
enabled.  If you use "Main", "Select Features" and turn off CVS and
Bzr but leave Git then it will only present the Git documentation
under the "Source Code" hover.  It won't delete the CVS and Bzr
repositories though and if you already know how to access them that
access continues.  (At some point I recommend disabling updates to
those old repositories just to prevent future confusion.)

Personally I advise everyone to use the "My Account Conf" link on the
left to change their personal preferences to check the "Use the Stone
Age menu" setting.  That way these menus will be displayed plainly and
not hidden under a hover.  That along with "Show feedback in relative
position" is my normal configuration.  Then all menu options are
always displayed and not hidden under a HTML CSS cascaded menu.  IMNHO
it just makes using the site easier.  YMMV.

Hope that helps!
Bob