Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> writes:
> Hello Daniel, > > I will apologize to everyone here for being mostly absent from the > mailing lists the past few months. I have been overbooked and needed > to shed load and keeping up with the mailing lists was part of the > load that got shed. Sorry. > > Karl Berry wrote: >> Project maintainers on savannah cannot create their own git repos. They >> have send email/submit a support request. (This is a constant thorn in >> everyone's side.) > > Yes. It would be super awesome if the web UI had an interface for > project maintainers to create sub project git repositories. The only > reason this hasn't been a serious problem is that there really are not > that many requests for this. And once they get created then there is > no more maintenance needed. > >> I guess your proposal is intended to avoid any work being necessary on >> the Savannah side. I can understand that goal. > > Yes. But... I think it is starting from the wrong end of things. > Certainly checking out web pages with git is the easy part of the > problem. And if that were the only problem then one might consider > that it would already have been done at some point. Instead the hard > part of the problem is to modify the web UI and the associated > database tables to handle project maintainers selecting their version > control system choice for web pages. That's the bit of work that is > needed to make this happen. > >> All that said, let me just say that the interface that seems cleanest to >> me would be to change new.py to take an additional option to specify the >> web repository VC type, say "-R cvs" or "-R git". > > Very small note. For curl it would probably be a form entry option as > is currently used for the other options. So probably "-F vcs=git" or > "-F vcs=git" or "-F vcs=svn" or default to "-F vcs=cvs" or some such > to pass through. > >> Then, on the savannah side, git would have to be supported as a backend >> for web repos as well as cvs (database work, UI work). On the fsf side, >> it would be a matter of running git commands instead of cvs commands, >> but following exactly the same pattern. > > There are only three magic numbers: Zero, One, and Many. Currently > there is support for One. To change that then we need to support > Many. Therefore some web UI work will be needed to allow project > maintainers to select their web backend system of choice. Because in > yesteryear it was cvs. Right now it is git. But svn and hg people > feel just as strongly about their vcs of choice. > > As it turns out I am out on holiday away from my house and the > networking here has just turned from pretty bad to really terrible. > I will have to leave this here and send it off and hope that it > transmits. > > Bob Yes, all this sounds good, hopefully we will get there. Website cvs repos are under the domain web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org, whereas non-website cvs repos are at cvs.savannah.gnu.org. Should we create an analogous domain: web.git.savannah.gnu.org ?
