On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 07:52:41PM +0200, Thérèse Godefroy wrote: > Le 12/05/2023 à 19:24, Alfred M. Szmidt a écrit : > > Might be worth noting that www.gnu.org is mostly usable locally from > > the CVS checkout as well, if one needs to look things over. > > > > It would work if the checked out files were complete HTML pages. Our > problem is that they are not. The banner, stylesheets, translation list, > menus and a few other things are included by SSIs.
These things can be developed in a public sandbox, i.e. /server/staging/... > > So a patch to www-discuss@ or whatever for a unpublished article would > > be sufficient in postponing any publishing. It would just be a matter > > of applying the patch, and looking at the web pages locally to see > > what is or isn't. > > > This is what we often do when working on the text itself. But we can't > work on anything that requires expanding the page. ...and drafts of article texts don't require expanding the page---not every edit.
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