Re: RFV: Help authoring KC Debian Hurd

[Jeff Bailey]

I just came across this message again, sorry it took so long to get to
it.  Jim Franklin is starting to do a bunch of stuff with the web
pages, if you're still interested, I'll forward this to him.

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:21:16AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Jeff Bailey wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:53:07AM -0700, Zack Brown wrote:
> > 
> > > Do you mean you want to mirror the Cousins at gnu.org? That would be very
> > > interesting, especially since the project is designed to allow mirrors to
> > > specify their own layout. So, theoretically, a cron job could download the
> > > (pseudo) XML, and compile it into regular gnu.org pages.
> > 
> > That sounds lovely.  I'll flag this as a TODO for me.  I'm starting to 
> > thump on the hurd pages pretty shortly.  We have an email list 
> > address@hidden (Mailman controlled if you need more email, archived if 
> > not <grin>) so I'll start to work with those folks on this.
> > 
> > > I'd be willing to do this myself but I'd need several things:
> > > 
> > > *) rsync access and a lot of disk space, so I could quickly upload new 
> > > pages
> > > to the site
> > 
> > I can do this.  Do you prefer kerberized rsh or ssh for the underlying 
> > protocol?
> 
> ssh please
> 
> > Note that if you keep stuff in a CVS repository, I can rsync that off of 
> > you and do updates from that.
> 
> at the moment, for all practical purposes there is no CVS repository (i.e.
> there is, but it's internal to Linuxcare).
> 
> > > *) information on the gnu.org layout style, so I could compile the pages
> > > properly.
> > 
> > I don't mind doing this if you're too busy, but otherwise I'll get the 
> > information to you a touch later.
> 
> If you'd *like* to try downloading and compiling the pages yourself, that
> would be the first time anyone had attempted it. I'd have to publish the
> latest version of the compiler (and it is not a thing of beauty, I have to
> admit). Still, it would be preferable to me uploading compiled pages, just
> because it would keep me from being even more of a bottleneck than I already
> am. But I don't want to dump a big pile of ugly work in your lap. I'm happy
> to rsync for now.
> 
> > > *) I'd rather mirror the entire project as a whole, because this would be
> > > easiest for me, as opposed to just KC Debian Hurd. If that's not possible,
> > > then it would probably be best to set up the cron job at gnu.org to copy
> > > only the texts desired.
> > 
> > Well, I'm only really interested in the Hurd stuff.  I'm trying to avoid 
> > linking off to other sites, 'cause I don't always notice links going away.
> 
> That's fine. Compiling the pages yourself would proabably be best then. Note
> that there are postgres tables involved, and it'll be interesting to see the
> differences in the data on the partial site, from the data on the full
> site...
> 
> no problems so far.
> 
> > > *) one day the cron job might become necessary anyway, if I run out of 
> > > time
> > > to do it by hand each time.
> > 
> > cron is good...  Sweet, sweet cron (Appropriate Homer Simpson noise...)
> > 
> > > Is any of this similar to what you had in mind?
> > 
> > Yup!
> > 
> > > BTW: any interest in writing thread summaries? It's fun and healthy!
> > 
> > Not at all, but thanks for the offer! =)
> 
> my pleasure ;-)
> 
> > 
> > Seriously, I'm swamped with what I've taken on so far, but I'd be really 
> > excited to get this type of information up there.
> > 
> > I'll email you soon.
> 
> OK so...
> 
> I *think* we're heading toward you cronning stuff over and compiling it
> yourself? Yes? If so, I'll be happy to help, and to hear about the rough
> spots so I can smooth them out.
> 
> Be well,
> Zack
> 
> > 
> > -- 
> > I'd give my right arm to be ambidexterous
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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