On 10 June 2013 21:32, Benedikt Ritter <benerit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Sebb,
>
> Am 10.06.2013 um 21:31 schrieb sebb <seb...@gmail.com>:
>
>> On 9 June 2013 16:12, Benedikt Ritter <benerit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello sebb,
>>>
>>> Am 09.06.2013 um 16:38 schrieb sebb <seb...@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> On 9 June 2013 11:18,  <brit...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>> Author: britter
>>>>> Date: Sun Jun  9 10:18:42 2013
>>>>> New Revision: 1491175
>>>>>
>>>>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1491175
>>>>> Log:
>>>>> Use viewvc instead of raw svn url
>>>>
>>>> How is the url used by plugins?
>>>>
>>>> Will using the viewvc URL mislead users into thinking they can
>>>> download the source from there using SVN?
>>>>
>>>> There are regular emails on the infra mailing lists where people
>>>> complain they cannot use the viewwc URL with svn.
>>>>
>>>> I suspect changing it may cause more issues than it resolves.
>>>
>>> This is the config that is used for example in [LANG]. It will cause the 
>>> Source Repository page to contain the viewvc link under the web access 
>>> section.
>>
>> Yes, I understand that.
>>
>>> The other sections on that page use the information from <connection> and 
>>> <developerConnection>
>>> There should not be any problems if users read the web site carefully…
>>
>> Sadly, that is often not the case... (otherwise the RTFM acronym would
>> not exist!)
>>
>> And even if they do, it's not made particularly obvious that the URL
>> is not suitable for SVN client access.
>>
>> The section says:
>>
>> "The following is a link to the online source repository." - that
>> could equally apply to SVN clients.
>>
>> The section header says "Web access" but "Web" does not always mean
>> HTTP(S); it's often used loosely to mean Internet.
>>
>> The fixed page text really ought to be clarified.
>
> I've done some research and I learned that the content of the Source 
> Repositories page is generated by the maven project info reports plugin [1].
> There is a HowTo on how to customize the static texts of the pages generated 
> by the plugin [2].

Thanks!

> I don't feel that it's necessary to do the customizing, because a lot of the 
> other proper components use the same default config of the plugin. For the 
> time I'm registered on the ML (which is quiet short, tbh) there has never 
> been a request from users about broken SVN links as far as I can remember.

I've seen a few on the Infrastructure mailing list, and I think there
may have been some on the Commons User list.

> But if you have the feeling that the information on our web sites is 
> insufficient, feel free to change this for CSV and all the other components 
> ;-)
> An alternative would be to raise an issue to change the default settings of 
> the project info reports plugin.
>
> Benedikt
>
> [1] http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-project-info-reports-plugin/
> [2] 
> http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-project-info-reports-plugin/examples/custom-report.html
>
>>
>>> Benedikt
>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Modified:
>>>>>   commons/proper/csv/trunk/pom.xml
>>>>>
>>>>> Modified: commons/proper/csv/trunk/pom.xml
>>>>> URL: 
>>>>> http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/csv/trunk/pom.xml?rev=1491175&r1=1491174&r2=1491175&view=diff
>>>>> ==============================================================================
>>>>> --- commons/proper/csv/trunk/pom.xml (original)
>>>>> +++ commons/proper/csv/trunk/pom.xml Sun Jun  9 10:18:42 2013
>>>>> @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ CSV files of various types.
>>>>>  <scm>
>>>>>    
>>>>> <connection>scm:svn:http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/csv/trunk</connection>
>>>>>    
>>>>> <developerConnection>scm:svn:https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/csv/trunk</developerConnection>
>>>>> -    <url>http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/csv/trunk</url>
>>>>> +    <url>http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/proper/csv/trunk</url>
>>>>>  </scm>
>>>>>
>>>>>  <issueManagement>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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