RE: RFV: Help authoring KC Debian Hurd

[Jim Franklin]

Hi Zack,
 what are your thoughts on hooking the info from Cousins into the
hurd.gnu.org website being constructed?

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of
Jeff Bailey
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 11:26 PM
To: Zack Brown
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: RFV: Help authoring KC Debian Hurd


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
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Zack Brown, Linuxcare, Inc.
> tel: 1-415-354-4878x284, fax: 1-415-701-7457
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>

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