Jochen, Wrt. cron I must have read what I wanted to read, it's not there on the page. What the page says is: "[...] then we just run 'svn update' in that directory to load the site from SVN." Do you know who "we" is in that sentence?
Right now the site is generated into the "target" subdirectory of the vxquery directory and then deployed into the "site" directory at the root of the vxquery svn. There it will be manually submitted to svn by whoever generated the site. This is the usual way, right? The cron job then does an svn update of the site directory on people.apache.org. In that case "we" would be the project and it's realized via a cron job. When you say that manual editing of the site directory happens, that means that someone (who?) manually edits the site on people.apache.org and never submits those changes to svn. Is that correct? In that case I agree that we could run into conflicts and we'd have to have a solution for those. As a forceful overwrite is probably not the best solution, we might want to reaise some form of alert to get human intervention. Did I get that right? Thanks, Till -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:06:05 +0100 > Von: Jochen Wiedmann <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: updating the website > I am quite certain that the page doesn't mention cron jobs: Those are > generally discouraged, at least if running on people.apache.org. I'd > also discourage it, because it won't handle conflicts. (You should > expect that, from time to time, manual editing in the site directory > happens, for example to add ApacheCon advertisements.) > > That said, I have to admit that I don't have a better idea. > > Sorry, > > Jochen > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Till Westmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just added a cronjob on people to update the website once a day > from > > svn. > > This seems to be what is suggested at > > http://incubator.apache.org/guides/sites.html . > > Did I get that right? > > > > Thanks, > > Till > > > > > > -- > Germanys national anthem is the most boring in the world - how telling!
