No, that's definitely not as simple... Any designer can easily zip up their theme, go to a website, and upload their zip.
Committing to SVN requires: downloading/installing SVN client, checking out svn, transferring files into svn, getting commit access, and finally committing. Clearly, uploading an archive is significantly simpler than a normal commit method. On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Benjamin Hutchins wrote: > That might be a method to do it. However, if they're uploading an > archive it's just as simple to use a normal commit method. > -- > Benjamin Hutchins > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Arthus Erea <[email protected]> > wrote: > As I see it, svn auto-commit would be part of the solution. > > It is relatively easy for us to create a simple PHP script to create > a web GUI where you can upload a zip into a directory. If we make a > script to then unzip it, svn can autocommit. > > On Jan 10, 2009, at 4:29 PM, Benjamin Hutchins wrote: > >> This would require us explaining how to network mount to people >> though. Wouldn't that be just the same as explaining how to commit >> via SVN? >> -- >> Benjamin Hutchins >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Chris J. Davis >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It is a dir that they mount via webdav usually. Anything saved within >> that dir is automatically versioned. No commit messages, but also >> no / >> trunk/tag etc. Just one big dir to dump in. >> >> Chris >> >> On Jan 10, 2009, at 2:45 PM, ringmaster wrote: >> >> > >> > On Jan 10, 7:57 am, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> The solution that you are asking for (minus putting stuff in zip >> >> files) is called svn auto-commit. Make a directory auto-commit, >> and >> >> tell people to put stuff there. All done. >> > >> > Most folks who are not svn-savvy will fail to include the trunk/ >> tag/ >> > branches components of the repo in their archive. A more involved >> > automated process with a friendly interface for entering version >> > numbers would eliminate the need for any svn knowledge. >> > >> > I'm not familiar with svn auto-commit. Is it a web server >> > technology? Got a link? >> > What do people need to know to put stuff into it? >> > >> > Owen >> > >> > > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
