1. Maven sites are derived from content already stored in CVS.
2. Using CVS as a backup for a simple site does make sense, BUT this concept doesn't scale when there is a large amount of content that could be changing on a daily basis. Take change logs, or unit test reports. Or, think about versioning the StatCVS html - versioning an analysis of our version control. Storing deltas for this does not seem to be intelligent.
3. As of this Monday there were still four or five Maven gen sites that had the nav ad for ApacheCon. now this raises the question, if there is a Commons site with that ad it hints to me that no one hasn't taken responsibility for maintaining that site. Few people take responsibility for site publishing right now, and making the process an order of magnitude more difficult (requiring a "huge" number of files to be versioned every time a site is republished) will only serve to discourage people from taking initiative.
Seriously, we should not make what is a straightforward process more difficult just because "that's the policy" Adding another step to a process that no one performs - that just means that fewer people will step up to the plate and take the initiative to improve our confusing hodgepodge of websites.
Tim
Henri Yandell wrote:
It's pretty easy to change, though it assumes that everyone is playing by the rules.
When I last attempted to make a change to the Commons site, there were clashes in the latka/ directory and local modifications in the httpclient/ directory.
The latka clashes on reflection appear to be due to the documents being removed from CVS, but the old CVS entries remaining.
Changing the navigation bar means being quite open with your cvs update, and I'm hesitant to go breaking latka and potentially causing an issue with httpclient.
Hen
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
IIRC it was official apache policy. And I think if you look at all the non-maven sites you'll find most have CVS folders on the server.
BTW, the lang maven site doen't link from the commons home page yet, and that seems a more complex job to change...
Stephen
From: "__matthewHawthorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There were talks a few months ago about checking in sites -- but as far
as I can see all of the commons project sites are not checked in. I
didn't really like the idea anyway, and I'm not sure what the story is
anymore.
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