[Savannah-hackers] Re: XXX.gnu.org

[Mathieu Roy]

"Brian J. Fox" <address@hidden> said:

>    From: Mathieu Roy <address@hidden>
>    Date: 07 Apr 2003 20:09:13 +0200
> 
>    "Brian J. Fox" <address@hidden> said:
> 
>    > 
>    > The number of "off-site" links in emacs.gnu.org that actually get
>    > visited should be small -- what's the problem with having the
>    > philosophy page stored on the canonical www.gnu.org?
> 
>    No problem. There is already the philosophy page on www.gnu.org.
> 
>    But obviously, if everypage in www.gnu.org points to
>    http://www.gnu.org for it's content, mirrorings is completely
>    meaningless. The purpose of a mirror is to be browsed within requests to
>    the master server.
> 
> I didn't say that pages in www.gnu.org should refer to www.gnu.org, I
> said that pages in emacs.gnu.org should refer to www.gnu.org -- i.e.,
> pages which are canonically stored on www.gnu.org should be referenced
> by their complete URLs from sites that are officially NOT www.gnu.org.

emacs.gnu.org is officially part of www.gnu.org and IMHO it
should stay that way.
Descriptions of GNU Projects are important. People browse www.gnu.org
for licenses, philosophy,  but also for packages description, links.
 
> There are multiple solutions for mirrors -- we're only discussing
> one here.  For example, the mirror could be pulled from a CVS
> repository built just for that purpose, and that could in turn be
> built from "translation" software that we run in-house.

An output shouldn't be managed by CVS (only sources). 

It's possible to parse each files from the www.gnu.org CVS, when the
files served by httpd are synced.
For instance we can replace href\=\"http://www.gnu.org by href\=\" 
that would make paths relative.
And mirrors should be rsynced directly via the www.gnu.org (parsed)
content, to get relative paths too. 

That's possible. But as Jaime Villate said, the policy on webpages
need to be changed  before.
(In fact, it should be possible to replace each href="/ by
href="http://www.gnu.org/ to automate this change)

Regards,


-- 
Mathieu Roy
 
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