On 03/Sep/2009 19:28, Mark Hindess wrote: > The infra team are testing a new svn-based publishing system for project > websites - see below for some details. I think this technology is much > nicer because it is faster so there is less waiting around to see if > your update worked (and less waiting around for the fix to be propagated > if it didn't). I also like the idea of using branches to make use of > harmony.staging.apache.org so you can *really* test your changes before > copying the trunk to the live branch. > > What do other people think about: > > 1) using a branch to distinguish the live site from trunk. I think the > overhead of an extra svn copy to promote staging to live is well worth > the additional peace of mind when making changes. > > 2) volunteering harmony.apache.org to be a test site. We don't make > many changes so it should be fairly low risk.
Yes to both. I waited for about an hour for the download page to propagate for M11, and as usual had to take a leap of faith that I had not messed up the cgi. This would be much better. Regards, Tim
