Hi, On 23/12/2015 19:15, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote: > Hello! > > On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: > >> On 20/06/2013 13:30, Ivan Zakharyaschev wrote: >> >>> I've got the wiki source with "darcs get --lazy >>> http://darcs.net/darcs-wiki"; as advertised on the site, recorded an >>> edit locally (which adds a tip), and now I'd like to push it in order >>> to publish my changes. >>> >>> Can I do this? >>> >>> I know that in the world of Git, there are sites which would allow >>> "anonymous" pushes in similar situations. [...] >>> >>> What about darcs.net's wiki? >> >> In darcs, an anonymous push is a "send" - i.e. use "darcs send", which >> because of the configuration of the wiki repo, should default to sending >> the change to patc...@darcs.net where someone can check and apply them. > > "darcs send" run in a clone of the wiki repo wants--as before--to send > patches to this list, namele, darcs-users@. Is this correct?
Oops, I planned to change this to darcs-devel@ back in 2013, but never got round to it. I've done that now. > My concern was that this is probably not at the level of automation of > applying the patches as I'd wish (without an intervention of a human > administrator; people edit the wiki without requiring the administrator > to do something). Yeah. I guess ideally we'd automatically filter out patches that touched sensitive files. In the meantime the costs are the delay and the admin time - as the volume is quite low I'm happy to spend a bit of time on the necessary admin. >> The extra security over just being able to edit the wiki directly online >> is because there are more things you can do with direct repo access. > > I see and agree. > >> We're looking at >> adding general support for submitting patches over http instead, but >> it's not all there yet. > > Has something changed in this respect since then? I see "darcs help > send" mentioning posting to HTTP: > > If `_darcs/prefs/post` exists in the target repository, darcs will > upload to the URL contained in that file, which may either be a > `mailto:` URL, or an `http://` URL. In the latter case, the > patch is posted to that URL. > > Does this work? Can the wiki be setup to automatically accept changes > via HTTP posts? The darcs client has had the "post to HTTP" facility for a long-time, but there's still no straightforward server-side code to receive posted patches. We were hoping to add it to darcsden as part of a GSoC project in 2013, but although code to do it was written, it was never merged. It's at: http://hub.darcs.net/ganesh/darcsden-sendbundles I think one of the sticking points was figuring out how to deal with notifying people by email when a patch is submitted. Darcsden recently acquired support for emailing people about issues, so perhaps it'd be easier to sort that out now. In any case this we'd still need something custom to handle the security issues of auto-applying any submitted patch. Cheers, Ganesh _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list darcs-users@darcs.net http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
