[Savannah-hackers] Re: GNU Website under CVS?

[Loic Dachary]

Richard Stallman writes:
 >     Your changes made in gnudist:~www will definitely not be lost.  That
 >     directory is now a cvs working directory, checked out from the
 >     repository and periodically updated with "cvs update".  I'm not sure
 >     if changes there are automatically committed periodically, but it's
 >     probably a good idea for you to commit it yourself anyway.
 > 
 > If someone edits a page on www.gnu.org, and fails to check it in, the
 > result will be that there is text on our web site which (1) you can't
 > see in the repository and (2) you can't fix by commiting changes to
 > the repository.  That would be very bad, and it is very likely to
 > happen.  Remaining in a situation where this CAN happen asking for
 > trouble!

 I'm doing a commit everyday to prevent this situation to happen. So
far everything is running smoothly (since 2 weeks
approximately). However a problem can occur if someone modify the CVS
tree and someone else modify the same files on gnudist by hand. It's
unlikely but may happen in which case I'll have to solve the conflicts
by hand and synchronize with the authors to figure out how to do
it. That's why I'm working hard to finish the migration of the
www.gnu.org web (yes, migration this time, not mere integration ;-) to
savannah.
 
 > We should end this situation ASAP, by making it hard to edit the files
 > on www.gnu.org directly, and putting something in /etc/motd on
 > www.gnu.org telling people who to contact so as to be set up to do
 > things the new way.

 Will do that some day this week. Thanks for keeping an eye on this ;-)

 Cheers,

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