On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 04:36:32PM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:16, Paul W. Frields <[email protected]> wrote: > > Recently the Design team moved their materials to a git repo managed > > in Fedora Hosted. The old location served from /srv/groups on the > > fedorapeople.org box, however, likely has many incoming links from the > > wiki and elsewhere which will now be broken. > > > > Design team assets are used widely throughout the project. Getting > > things from git is a substantially high bar to set for a random > > contributor (more so with a random person looking to use the free > > assets we champion). Although there is a git browser, it's still much > > easier for someone to understand a simple web directory page, or even > > use existing instructions to hook their desktop to the team depot via > > SFTP. So I'd like to propose a way of making the original location > > work as a git clone with a timed pull that keeps the content fairly > > fresh. > > > > The reason this was set up on a publictest system was 3-fold: > > 1) fedorapeople is not meant for high workload items. Even after the > move to new servers, it can be non-responsive from a lot of fedora > planet updates of people cruising static pages. This was the reason > for not putting the items Mizmo set up on publictest04 > > 2) fedorapeople is not meant to be mission critical. It is meant to be > used as a useful tool to help people communicate but has no guarantee > that it will be there 24x7 or even 8x5. The hardware is donated by a > provider and we may not be able to get things fixed in a timely manner > people expect. > > 3) The intent of the item on publictest04 was to showcase something > and is not permanent. Publictest systems have the same lack of > guarantees as the ones above but are built around running dynamic > loads. > > So the way forward should be looking at > > a) A permanent location that is not publictest or fedorapeople > b) A secondary way at that location to share documents outside of the git > repo.
OK. All fair reasons, so I'll look into finding where we have dangling links hanging around, and work on pointing them instead at gitweb. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ Red Hat Summit/JBossWorld -- Register now! http://.theredhatsummit.com _______________________________________________ design-team mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/design-team
