Today's status: I'm working on the automatic update after commit, which is pretty much a prerequisite for anything else. I won't finish today, though, and I have family visiting all this week and don't know if I'll have enough time to get it going until after.
Meanwhile, as a temporary kludge, I set up a cron job (user karl, on the frontend host) to do the refresh every hour (at the top of the hour, :00). So commits should show up within an hour. Anyone in the administration project should be able to get an svn "member" checkout (or git over svn if you prefer) per the usual "source code" page, https://savannah.gnu.org/svn/?group=administration karl
