On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
on Mon Dec 10 2012, Beman Dawes <bdawes-AT-acm.org> wrote:
For existing sandbox libraries that the owner wants to migrate to a Git public repo, possibly retaining history, we will want to provide whatever support is needed.
I haven't given any thought to migrating the web site. Dave?
I think a regular git-svn migration will mostly work, but I am not entirely clear on what's needed in order to reference the html in individual libraries' doc/ subdirectories. Rene?
Well.. Moving with git-svn is only about 5% of the work on that. A few things to deal with: * The current management, i.e. editing, of the website is possible because of a post-commit hook that updates the web site content as it changes in the svn repo. So that would have to be replicated in some form as manually updating content is unmaintainable. Note, per Beman's request I already pushed the scripts doing this onto svn. * The current library documentation relies on having the previous Boost releases around on disk (the monolithic releases). Hence if we are going to keep having monolithic releases all we need is to have an established, i.e. automated, release archive process that we can grab and expand archives for beta preview use. If we aren't going to have monolithic releases then we will have to write some code to deal with both styles of releases. * In all of this we have to deal with the fact that the "active" state of web site editing will not reside in the web server itself. Which will make for somewhat more cumbersome management. It will also increase the chances of tampering with the web site as there are more points of security failure involved. * We do also have the option of not migrating the web site source repo. As once the rest of the svn traffic goes way from the current server the load will improve dramatically. And the rationale for switching the web site source to a DVCS is rather specious at best. -- -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim - grafikrobot/yahoo