On Jan 16, 2008 6:43 AM, Andreas Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Lenya devs,
>
> here's a summary of the IRC session. The IRC log can be viewed at
> http://wiki.apache.org/lenya/IrcLogDocuPublication
>
> The topic was the migration of our website to Lenya.
>
> There was a consensus among the participants that we should migrate to
> Lenya, mainly for the following reasons:
>
> - Test scenario for collaborative editing (eat our own dogfood)
> - Marketing
>
> Conditions:
> ===========
> - The content must be stored in the SVN repository.
> - We can't commit from the zones server.
> - We can't allow public access.
>
> Issues:
> =======
>
> The central question is if we should run Lenya on the zones server or on
> the local machine.
>
> Advantages and disadvantages of the zones server:
> (+) Testing scenario for collaborative work
> (+) No synchronization via SVN after each change necessary
> (-) Difficult SVN commit scenario
> (-) It's hard to let the author of a change be the committer
>
> Apparently most people could live with the circumstance that the author
> of a change is not the committer.
>
> When running the app on the zones, every once in a while someone would
> have to commit the content:
> - Copy the content from the zones server to the local sandbox via scp
> - Commit the changes from your local sandbox
> - Do an SVN update on the zones server
>
> It would be discouraged to edit locally, so that SVN conflicts on the
> zones server can be avoided. If conflicts occur, they would have to be
> resolved manually on the zones server.
>
> Another issue is revision control. One option would be to set Lenya's
> revision history length to 0 (i.e. no backups). This means that only SVN
> is used for versioning. Rolling back would mean (a) doing it manually in
> the SVN sandbox on the zones server or (b) paste old content in the
> source editor.
>
> Please add more information in case I forgot something. TIA!
>
>
> -- Andreas
>
>
> --
> Andreas Hartmann, CTO
> BeCompany GmbH
> http://www.becompany.ch
> Tel.: +41 (0) 43 818 57 01
>
>

Why set Lenya's revision history length to 0 (i.e. no backups)?  Just
to save disk space?

Also, will there be e-mail notification to the dev mailing list
whenever somebody publishes a change?  (I hope so)

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