Re: commons website...

["B. W. Fitzpatrick" <fi...@red-bean.com>]

Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org> writes:
> 
> Aaron Bannert wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 11:31:51AM +0200, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> > 
> >>Just one question: where would we put the xml sources, and where the 
> >>results?
> > 
> > 
> > Do you mean where under the commons-site CVS repository?
> 
> I don't know how it's supposed to be done since in the projects I'm in 
> it's different for all.
> 
> In some the site xml docs are in the project CVS and in the site CVS we 
> place only the resulting html.
> 
> In others we put all the site stuff in the site CVS and point the cron 
> job that updates the site to the directory where we commit the results 
> of the build.
> 
> In others the xml docs are in one of the two CVSes and the site build 
> results are directly sent to the web server, since the sources are all 
> that is needed to leave a trace.
> 
> The last approach is what we have been doing as an experiment with 
> forrest, using our "forrestbot", that called by a cron job builds and 
> updtes the site every two hours on a test server.
> 
> Some projects asked us to be able to commit the main site manually and 
> have the automatic one in a subdir, as a "cutting-edge" version for 
> users of the latest and greatest code.

The only thing I ask is that we don't check the generated html into
the repository.

-Fitz