On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 11:47 AM Friedrich W. H. Kossebau <kosse...@kde.org> wrote: > > Am Samstag, 9. November 2019, 21:22:16 CET schrieb Ben Cooksley: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 8:37 AM Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > > > El dissabte, 9 de novembre de 2019, a les 19:27:07 CET, Ben Cooksley va > escriure: > > > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 7:18 AM Alexander Potashev > <aspotas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > сб, 9 нояб. 2019 г. в 03:20, Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org>: > > > > > > This would include the shutdown of WebSVN in particular, which when > > > > > > coupled with the shutdown of our two CGit instances would also allow > > > > > > for us to eliminate an entire virtual machine from our systems. > > > > > > > > > > Will there be any web interface for SVN after shutdown of WebSVN? > > > > > > > > > > Can we assume https://phabricator.kde.org/source/svn/ remains > > > > > available during the next 10 years? > > > > > > > > Phabricator's browser will be retired as part of the shutdown of > > > > Phabricator, which will take place once Gitlab has assumed > > > > responsibility for code hosting and review, and the tasks have been > > > > migrated from Phabricator. > > > > > > > > Should WebSVN be shutdown as well, then there would be no web > > > > interface to our SVN repository. > > > > > > That's not acceptable. > > > > Mind explaining why? > > FWIW, everytime I had to deal with translations as developer (like checking > pot files as well as .po files contents) I found having the web interface and > its browsing feature very valuable to quickly find what I was looking for, > over having to locally mess around with svn commands and juggling between > commandline & file viewers. Including url bookmarks for quick access to > browsing certain sets of files. > > Incidents which I remember right now included: > * finding out whether extraction scripts were working as intended > * comparing translations seen by users over what they should see > > Are there any other KDE clients of the svn repos still around, besides > translation system?
The only other clients I am aware of are a small number of websites, which can be found at /trunk/www/ in SVN. The list of ones we serve can be found at https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/binary-factory-tooling/blob/master/staticweb/standard-jobs.yaml#L69 > Perhaps the "full clone" needed for WebSVN could be reduced to the translation > subtrees, would that improve situation to a degree if possible? (well, you > surely thought of this yourself, just in case) Unfortunately WebSVN needs a full copy of the underlying repository to be able to work. > > For me as developer contributor to projects in KDE spheres, losing the web > browsing interface for raw translation files would be a regression in > developer experience. > > Cheers > Friedrich > > Regards, Ben