It could be up to a project to decide if the documentation should be CVS HEAD or a fixed release or both.
Sandbox projects by definition have not got official releases so the cron daily build is ideal James ------- http://radio.weblogs.com/0112098/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henri Yandell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 8:47 AM Subject: Re: [ann] db-commons open for business > > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, James Strachan wrote: > > > From: "Jason van Zyl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 21:18, Rodney Waldhoff wrote: > > > > Cool, I was just getting ready to ask about that. > > > > > > > > My hope is to set up the db-commons components under this same scheme, > > so > > > > that the site-generation will propogate all the way down. > > > > > > Sure, not a problem. I'll take a crack at making the db.apache.org a > > > little reusalble toolkit and put it in a plugin. Then you can use it > > > from there and maybe it can be used for the jakarta-commons site as > > > well. > > > > +1000. Many jakarta commons projects badly need a cron update of their > > websites. > > Just a word of warning. A cron update of a site is often the HEAD-docs, > while the site itself wants to be the current release documentation. Maven > [no offense intended jason] had this problem early on, and other projects > definitely have it. So the cron can be damaging in that it so utterly > improves the deployment feedback loop, that it highlights what is usually > a hidden-ish problem, that a site has multiple sites inside it. > > Then there's the pain of how to handle a branch, when I release 1.0.1 of > something, it is usually from the 1.0 branch and not from the HEAD. The > Jakarta-Taglibs has this pain. I have to deploy the site from HEAD, but > all the changes went into the branch, so my HEAD documentation currently > lies about what's in HEAD as it refers to the branch. > > I hope my language there isn't too confused :) > > Apologies for having problems and not solutions, > > Hen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com
