Re: [off-list] CVS pains

2012-12-14 Thread Karl Berry
would be a good first step. Almost nothing happens on the savannah side. The basic process is a hook into cvs commit that does (effectively) wget something.gnu.org/something.cgi where the CGI is maintained by the FSF, and does all the real work. Getting visibility into the active code for an

Re: gnu-web-doc-update: fails to add new directories

2012-12-14 Thread Akim Demaille
Le 13 déc. 2012 à 18:06, Jim Meyering a écrit : >> cvsu does not report that there are directories and files inside the >> 'D's. Is it wrong to simply cvs add everything that is there? >> Just skipping CVS, but adding all the rest using "find"? >> Say "find . -name CVS -prune -o -print". > > T

Re: [off-list] CVS pains

2012-12-14 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) () Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:53:55 GMT 1) It's not a matter of just changing savannah. There are numerous (*numerous*) processes involved with web pages repositories, most of which are written, maintained, and controlled by the FSF sysadmins, not Savanna

Re: [off-list] CVS pains (was: Re: gnu-web-doc-update: fails to add new directories)

2012-12-14 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/13/2012 11:53 PM, Karl Berry wrote: > > 3) Everyone agrees it would be nice to support different VCs for web > pages. Nobody needs "convincing". > This is good to know. > Maybe it will happen some day. > I hope so. It's not a big deal actually (since as Jim noted, most of the process is hi