On 3/15/07, Emmanuele Bassi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 06:01 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On 3/14/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 3/14/07, Tim Janik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > > > Should we send patches to this list I suppose? > > > > > > > > for the moment, yes. > > > > and please let us know if you already have commit access or not. > > > > > > I was worried that some developers would complain about html patches > > > dirtying the list, but then thanks if you'll look and commit the > > > patches since I don't have commit rights. > > > > * There's 3 directories in svn (branches, tags, trunk), and it seems > > only 'trunk' should be kept since the others are horribly outdated (~5 > > years) and just duplicate info of each other and that of 'trunk'. > > Could someone remove them since I don't see their use. > > this is how SVN repositories work: trunk/ is roughly equivalent to CVS > HEAD branch; the branches/ and tags/ directories are used to store > specific branches and to tag a specific version. since the web site for > gtk+ (and for GNOME, for that matter) are stored in SVN and regenerated > via cron jobs, that explains the presence of those two directories.
Thanks for the info. Why would one tag or branch web pages? Such functionality seem only appropriate for software. > > * I don't know too much how web technologies work but I expected that > > if I open trunk/index.html I should see a page similar to that found > > in www.gtk.org, but in svn's html, there's no left-hand table and no > > pictures for example. > > the script that regenerates the site includes the various common > sections of the site (top, bottom and side bars) using comments in the > HTML file. consider it a poor man's PHP, if you want. :-) Why this script complication? Why isn't it shown exactly like it would appear on the web? > > * I see www.gtk.org (dated Dec 2006) hasn't been updated to latest svn > > (dated Jan 2007). > > yeah, it's known; when GNOME migrated from CVS to SVN the scripts > weren't updated. we can also drop the cron job and use the commit hook > script that SVN provides, now. Me can't wait for any solution, just so that the changes I might make will become web-visible soon after they get committed... _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
