Hi Joel, On 3 November 2016 at 00:46, Joel Kulesza <jkule...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 7:25 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org> > wrote: >> >> If you are interested in updating this part of the wiki, we can give you >> the necessary passwords :) Indeed everything is really out of date. The >> graphical tour shows proudly LyX 1.3.0pre2! > > > I might be interested... At the risk of raising the ire of > traditionalists, as part of reworking some of the parts of the site that > have aged less-than-gracefully, I'd be interested to learn more about the > infrastructure behind LyX development and distribution to see if moving to > more-centralized and/or remotely-hosted solutions make sense. > FYI, both the lyx web site and the wiki site are run by the PmWiki wiki engine. The content of both sites can actually be edited through a browser, it's simply not as visible for the web site. Regarding "less-than-graceful" ageing, I'm actually surprised they still work. And I'm happy people are still editing content on the wiki. I think I started that work over ten years ago, so my memory is a bit vague on the details of their configuration... However, if I remember correctly, at the time both the wiki and web site where in SVN. Right now it seems only the web site files have a .svn/-folder. At the time it was possible to checkout the web on a different host, or at a different location, and test it there. So when I did bigger configuration changes, I deployed and tested locally before putting in production at lyx.org. But these days we use git, so I don't even know if there's something corresponding to the www-user repo in git. Anyway, updating the content of the wiki and the web site ought to primarily be a matter of using the wiki functionality (for both of them). Do you have the login passwords? Regards, Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-70 687 39 44
