Folks,
I've spent tonight reading through the messages that have accumulated
in "gnhlug-org" during the last month that I've been missing-in-action...
I'm really sorry to have just disappeared... stuff with LPI heated up and
we had lots going on at Linux Business Expo last week in Chicago (which was
a *great* show for LPI and the LBE part of the show had lots of traffic,
but the main Comdex part seemed skimpy on attendance).
Anyway, I'll try to stay more up on what's going on in the list and I plan
to be over at the CTC tomorrow night and to be at LBS for much of the day
on Saturday.
And I know everyone is focused on LBS, but the main thing I wanted to
mention was Ben's comment about a month ago:
> BTW, I am in no way territorial about that webpage. By all means, make it a
> group effort. :-)
I think this a great suggestion (and I might even try to spend a few cycles
helping), but as a "survivor" or several group efforts at maintaining
web sites, can I **STRONGLY** suggest that if several people are going to
be working on the gnhlug.org web site that it be done under the control of
some type of revision control system like CVS. It will save the group no
end of headaches and allow people to make updates to the site without being
afraid of conflicting with others. I mention CVS purely because it's
open-source and available on pretty much every Linux system.
For those not familiar with CVS, essentially someone on the admin side of
gnhlug.org (okay, Bruce :-) sets up a CVS "repository" for the web site.
Anyone wishing to edit the web site (and having the appropriate access)
can "check out" a local "working copy". Essentially you wind up with a
complete local copy of the web site. You go into that copy and make
whatever changes you want. When you are done, you "commit" the changes
up to the repository. If two people make changes to the same file at
the same time, a conflict is noted and the people can resolve the conflict.
It sounds a bit difficult, but it's really trivial from the client side
of things and also can work over connections like ssh.
If you would like more info about CVS, Coriolis recently published a book
on the subject and made portions of the book available under the GPL at:
http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/
Anyway, I just offer it as food for thought if people are serious about
having multiple people help in the maintenance of the site.
See you soon,
Dan
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