Hi all, I am finally getting time to open source the last remaining component of Publican (YAY,!!!111!!!) the back-end that consumes the web packages.
It is quite a bit of work to extract the Red Hat specific content and make the system work without using RPM. Since there will be large changes to the code base, mainly extra content but a few changes to the core code, I have decided to branch the source to allow for a cleaner source tree ... and patching urgent bugs ;) I have branched the 1.6 tree to svn.fedorahosted.org/svn/publican/branches/publican-1.6, trunk will now be considered to be the 2 beta tree. Given the current thread on the fedora devel-list about upgrading practices we probably will not be upgrading to 2.0 on Fedora 11 or 12, so the 1.6 tree will be used for maintaining these distros, and other distros that do not want to propagate the 2.0 changes. Note that this is open for debate, but it is, AIUI, "not the proper thing to do" so please consider this before starting a debate. This does not affect the brand packages, so they will continue to use the trunk. I wish I could point you to an example of how the system looks, but the code migration isn't complete and the only active version we have is an internal staging server for the Red Hat Engineering Content Services team. This system has over 600 packages installed on it, with a lot of updates applied every week, so it has been a good test bed. I hope to be able to change my fedora people site over to this system in the next week, the non RPM version of course, so keep an eye on http://jfearn.fedorapeople.org if you are interested. I will post an update when I get that changed over. I'm pretty happy to be able to get to this, it has been bugging me for ages but I keep getting assigned to fight hotter fires. I will be migrating the system as it currently works, with changes for not using RPM or hard coded front pages. After that, when people can get a clearer picture of what it is and how it works, we will be open to discussions on how to improve it or make it more flexible. It's just a bit hard to have that discussion before you can see what it does :) Well it's Friday night here, so I must consume some cider :D Cheers, Jeff. -- Jeff Fearn <[email protected]> Software Engineer Engineering Operations Red Hat, Inc Freedom ... courage ... Commitment ... ACCOUNTABILITY _______________________________________________ publican-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/publican-list Wiki: https://fedorahosted.org/publican
