Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] autoredirect for savannah downloads

[Sylvain Beucler]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 06:31:00PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Sylvain,
> 
>     I prefer when services are hosted at Savannah for 2 reasons:
> 
> Well, I can only agree with those reasons in principle.  If you have the
> time and energy to do the work of actually implementing it, great.
> 
>     but if the service is only about installing and configuring a
>     mod_perl script I don't think there's much to know about the rest of
>     Savannah anyway :)
> 
> O yes there is.  No one else (well, certainly not me, much less Randy)
> would have a clue about where to start with something like this.  Sorry.
> As you saw from my other mail, I am still very much at the
> I-don't-know-where-anything-is stage with savannah.

I tend to disagree, so let's add "and if you know how to administer a
Debian system" - because this is a pretty standard Debian setup, and
people like Aleix showed that they could indeed administer the system
easily enough. It's not as if the system were 100% Savannah-specific
(or 100% Beuc-specific ;)), as your "no one else" implies.

> Anyway, I will collect the sources for you and ask Randy about making it
> into a normal CGI, which I expect will be vastly simpler than dealing
> with mod_perl.  Unless the savannah web server in question already has
> mod_perl.  Does it?

Nope, but it's as easy as "apt-get install libapache2-mod-perl2" to
fix it :)

-- 
Sylvain