Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
Le 26 oct. 04, � 21:20, Upayavira a �crit :
...The thing you seem to have missed is the staging process. If I have written an xdoc, I want to see that as HTML, on a staging server, before I actually publish it. After all, the XML might not even be valid, or there might be mistakes. I need to be able to see the page on the site before I publish it...
How about using SVN tags for this?
-Current known good version of the docs is always tagged as "current-docs"
-Website serves this tagged version on the public site
-New docs releases are done by moving this tag to the appropriate revision (I didn't try moving tags in SVN yet but it shouldn't be a problem)
Then you'd use the current release for the staging process, and update the public version by moving the SVN tag.
So you'd use HEAD or whatever to view the latest commit, and the public would see the "current-docs" tag. That could work. But would we want the HEAD to be password protected, or in some way hidden so that it doesn't get regularly viewed when it isn't live yet? I like the idea of being able to tag the docs whenever we release. If we can get the available tags for a document from SVN, we could have a dropdown that allows you to see the docs for a specific version, which would be absolutely fantastic. That would solve soooooo many problems.
So, when do you start?
Regards, Upayavira
