Ross Gardler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > >Ross Gardler wrote: > >> > >>It would be possible to make the forrestbot deploy automatically to the > >>svn server (in fact we use the forrestbot to do it manually). > > > >Except for one thing. It needs to be a committer doing > >the svn checkin, not a role-based account. > > Ahhh... yes - I *always* forget that (not a problem in some > environments, but it is a problem here at the ASF and I'm not at all > sure how it could be solved here). > > It is technically possible, but it means leaving a file with username > and password with SVN commit access on the zone. Obviously, this is not > a good idea from a security perspective.
This is one of the factors that contributes to the quagmire of site-build discussions at site-dev@ Actually we should not assume about this role-based accounts. This was from the situation long ago when we were not running on ASF hardware. Jeff had set up a forrestbot at cocoondev.org - a remote machine. Perhaps we should bring it up again on site-dev. ;-) -David
