Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 11:39:03PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:24:03PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > > > > Please be adviced to notice #567781 in which > > Simon wrote a nice set of commands to follow through for the switch, it > > just requires someone to pick

Re: CVS and WWW sprint. --- SVN is not so bad with GIT

2011-01-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 12:32:00PM +0900, Osamu Aoki a écrit : > > As for choice between svn and git, it is less work with svn if we need > to keep version check for translation while making local use of git > easily integrated. But if we use po4a, version check is non-issue. Git > seems to be b

Re: CVS and WWW sprint. --- SVN is not so bad with GIT

2011-01-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:30:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > David Prévot wrote: > > Actually, what is the problem with CVS? Other VCS may offer fancy > > features that are actually useless for the website (use of branches or > > whatever) > > An odd statement given that there is an existing

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-26 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:24:03PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > > Please be adviced to notice #567781 in which > Simon wrote a nice set of commands to follow through for the switch, it > just requires someone to pick up the job. > > Are you willing to help along that lines so we can get rid

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-26 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
* Charles Plessy [2011-01-26 01:20:10 CET]: > In webwml/english/devel/debian-med/News/2011/20110124.wml, I used the wrong > encoding, and wanted to correct it. For this, I did recode UTF-8..ISO-8859-15 > 20110124.wml, and tried to commit it with ‘cvs commit’, but CVS did not > recognise the change

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:09:36AM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs a écrit : > * Charles Plessy [2011-01-24 05:52:30 CET]: > > > None of this is a problem, but it working with CVS is not a pleasure, > > so at least for me I tend to postpone work on the Debian website. > > Feel free to send in patches in

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-25 Thread Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Hi! Am 24.01.2011 21:30, schrieb Joey Hess: >> Actually, what is the problem with CVS? Other VCS may offer fancy >> features that are actually useless for the website (use of branches or >> whatever) [..] > Also, the Debian Weekly News has always struggled with producing a > newsletter in a syste

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-25 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! Let me answer a lot of mails in this thread with one single mail, I don't want to repeat responses. Please make sure to at least read my plead at the end of the mail, the part that starts with the -) list. * Charles Plessy [2011-01-24 05:14:50 CET]: > I make occasional contribution

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-25 Thread Raphael Geissert
David Prévot wrote: > and, at best of our knowledge, we have no information > concurring to the idea that it “is turning away contributors” Now you have some evidence: it has prevented me from working on the website either for improving it or at least generating the pages for DSAs. Whenever I tri

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 03:55:31PM -0400, David Prévot a écrit : > > If git-cvs is useful for some of us, and if it may be useful for new > contributors, let's just document it so it will give users a choice, but > since the website relies on some CVS specific features (translation > check for exa

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-24 Thread Damyan Ivanov
-=| Joey Hess, Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:30:39PM -0400 |=- > Also, "use git-cvs" is a weak sop to doing it properly. Our > experience in > the d-i team (which just finished converting to git) is that only highly > motivated or core contributors bothered with the significant pain of using > git-svn.

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-24 Thread Joey Hess
David Prévot wrote: > Actually, what is the problem with CVS? Other VCS may offer fancy > features that are actually useless for the website (use of branches or > whatever) An odd statement given that there is an existing and high profile branch of the Debian website right now. Also, the Debian W

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-24 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 24/01/2011 00:52, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Le Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:31:02AM -0400, David Prévot a écrit : >> >> Actually, what is the problem with CVS? Other VCS may offer fancy >> features that are actually useless for the website (use of bra

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:31:02AM -0400, David Prévot a écrit : > > Actually, what is the problem with CVS? Other VCS may offer fancy > features that are actually useless for the website (use of branches or > whatever), and, at best of our knowledge, we have no information > concurring to the ide

Re: CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-23 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le 24/01/2011 00:14, Charles Plessy a écrit : > Dear all, Hi, > I see that CVS was on the menu of the WWW sprint on last December. Was there > something decided ? Are there some blockers identified on which one can work ? Actually, what is the pro

CVS and WWW sprint.

2011-01-23 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear all, I make occasional contributions to the Debian website, in /devel/debian-med, and I wonder how I could help to let the website migrate out of the the CVS / WML / iso-8859-1 troika, which I think is turning away contributors. I see that CVS was on the menu of the WWW sprint on last Decem