Re: [off-list] CVS pains

2012-12-15 Thread Thien-Thi Nguyen
() k...@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) () Fri, 14 Dec 2012 23:31:05 GMT 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 t

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: [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

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

2012-12-13 Thread Karl Berry
Wouldn't it be great if someone could convince the Savannah admin 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 Savannah. FSF sysa

Re: [off-list] CVS pains

2012-12-13 Thread Simon Josefsson
Stefano Lattarini writes: > Ah, we all git lovers still forced to deal with that living fossil > of CVS! > > Wouldn't it be great if someone could convince the Savannah admin > to switch the web pages repository to a modern, distributed VCS? +1 The gnu.org webpages is one of only a handful of p

Re: CVS pains

2012-12-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
On 12/13/2012 06:09 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > Stefano Lattarini wrote: >> Ah, we all git lovers still forced to deal with that living fossil >> of CVS! >> Oops, I meant this as "private venting" only, but I sent it to the whole list by mistake. Sorry for the extra noise. Stefano

Re: CVS pains

2012-12-13 Thread Jim Meyering
Stefano Lattarini wrote: > Ah, we all git lovers still forced to deal with that living fossil > of CVS! > > Wouldn't it be great if someone could convince the Savannah admin > to switch the web pages repository to a modern, distributed VCS? If it weren't mostly abstracted/automated away, I would h

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

2012-12-13 Thread Stefano Lattarini
Ah, we all git lovers still forced to deal with that living fossil of CVS! Wouldn't it be great if someone could convince the Savannah admin to switch the web pages repository to a modern, distributed VCS? (Me ducks and run now ;-). Regards, Stefano