The infra team are testing a new svn-based publishing system for project websites - see below for some details. I think this technology is much nicer because it is faster so there is less waiting around to see if your update worked (and less waiting around for the fix to be propagated if it didn't). I also like the idea of using branches to make use of harmony.staging.apache.org so you can *really* test your changes before copying the trunk to the live branch.
What do other people think about: 1) using a branch to distinguish the live site from trunk. I think the overhead of an extra svn copy to promote staging to live is well worth the additional peace of mind when making changes. 2) volunteering harmony.apache.org to be a test site. We don't make many changes so it should be fairly low risk. Regards, Mark. ------- Forwarded Message Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 03:18:51 -0700 Message-ID: <4239a4320909030318s4fe3b877md4b094a6bbbb4...@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Testing SVN based websites From: Paul Querna <p...@querna.org> To: infrastructure-...@apache.org Hi, SvnWcSub and SvnPubSub now work well enough for some testing. I have added a staging.apache.org subdomain for now. I have setup a required user/pass for all *.staging.apache.org, NOT to make it secure, but to prevent googlebot etc from indexing it. First demo: http://apr.staging.apache.org/ Username: staging Password: staging Commits <https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/site/trunk/docs> to are propagated the live webserver in under 1 second. The use of a staging path is entirely up to the PMC/TLP, the sync tools only care about subversion paths -- for example, we could map them like this: apr.apache.org -> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/site/branches/live/docs apr.staging.apache.org -> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/site/trunk/docs If a PMC thought that was a better workflow for them -- if a PMC prefers to just have instant updates, they can forgo the staging domain, and just map it to their live domain. So.... any Volunteer PMCs who want to convert their production website? SvnWcSub and SvnPubSub will still need some more development and a few small features, but so far seem very stable... yay for twisted and python. Thanks, Paul ------- End of Forwarded Message
