Re: [SSI-devel] [ATTN:] Anyone who edits the website

[Brian J. W. <Bri...@hp...>]

BTW, this does not apply to files in the contrib/ directory of the CI or 
OpenSSI websites. CVS is configured to ignore these directories, so 
changes to them should be made directly on the web servers.

Brian


Brian J. Watson wrote:
> For a long time, the OpenSSI and CI websites have been under CVS 
> control. The standard practice for making changes has been to edit the 
> appropriate files on the web server (which immediately changes what 
> users see on the website), then commit (checkin) the changes to CVS. 
> This was not necessarily the best practice, but it was convenient.
> 
> SourceForge has recently made a change preventing "developer" CVS 
> checkouts from being done on their web servers. Only "anonymous" 
> checkouts are allowed. What this means is that CVS is now strictly 
> read-only on the web servers, so we should no longer directly make 
> changes there.
> 
> Instead, each of us should checkout a local copy of the website on our 
> own computers under our own developer accounts. Whenever we need to make 
> changes, do them in this local copy then commit the changes. After that, 
> login to the web server using the openssi-web account (you already know 
> the password if you need it) and do a `cvs update' on the website to 
> place your latest changes online.
> 
> In the next few days, I'll figure out how to add a cron job to 
> automatically update the website every 15 minutes or so. Then you'll 
> only need to manually update it if you want to see your changes online 
> immediately.
> 
> Also, there are a lot of unknown and modified files on the OpenSSI 
> website that were never properly checked in. In the next few days, I'll 
> commit them to CVS through my own local checkout of the website.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
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