Re: [Docutils-develop] missing symlinks (was: #450 0.18: New HTML markup for footnotes is difficult to stylise)

[Adam T. <aat...@ou...>]

> OTOH, the "math.css" is present, although it is a symlink as well!
> Maybe the "public checkout" does not create new files (or new symlinks)
> without maintainer interaction?

> Does anyone know how the "public checkout" under
> https://docutils.sourceforge.io/test/
> https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docutils/
> works, where it is set up and how we can fix it?

I read various pages in the SourceForge documentation -- there are some that document the project website [1]_ and the remote shell access [2]_ but I couldn't find anything on the auto-updating. I expect there is a script somewhere that runs ``svn checkout​`` and uploads the results -- it doesn't overwrite, as there is obsolete content in the ``docutils/`` directory [3]_.

I looked into the subversion metadata but the only SVN hook that is setup is the auto-mailer to ``docutils-checkins``, so the script may be in the admin web area?

Sorry I can't be of much further help -- I think the quick fix would be to use the shell service to recreate the link, but as we don't know what keeps the website up-to-date, it is hard to know if or when it'll break again.

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Project%20Web%20Services/
[2]: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Shell%20Service/
[3]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docutils/?C=M;O=A

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