Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> skribis: > There are 293 versions checked in. Which means that pretty much every > version is a complete copy of the file since line based diffs are > saved and there is only one line. That isn't going to be > sustainable. The actual root error is this one.
Ouch, I didn’t know CVS was this bad. Sorry that it causes problems! I can change the program that generates it to include newlines, but we’d still have to remove history. Would it help? > But I wanted to say that Assaf Gordon has spent a significant amount > of time trying to improve the web page system on the savannah.gnu.org > side of things. Primarily to enable use of git for web page updates. What about providing rsync/ssh access like for nongnu.org? After all, HTML pages that get displayed are often not source nowadays, so people could use a separate repo for the source and simply rsync the HTML. > But there are limits to what we can do on our (savannah) side of > things. Presently his efforts are waiting for help on the fsf.org > side of things. The improvements are stuck until more resources are > available to help there. :-( > My feedback is that something different needs to be done for this > index.html page. I don't want to suggest something without thinking > about it. I might suggest something worse! But the first thought I > had was that this needs some kind of dedicated status page. This > shouldn't really be checked into cvs. This looks to be some type of > real time dynamically created status page that shows the information > you want. I would put this on a different location entirely. Perhaps > a dedicated page? That seems like the way it should go. If you want > to have it displayed right where it is displayed then an <iframe> can > be used to place it there. > > How is the data on that page generated? Using <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix/guix-artwork.git/tree/website/www/packages.scm>. Can www.gnu.org host such pages at all? It’s clear that CVS is a hindrance for such purposes so if there’s another possibility, I’m all for it! :-) Thank you, Ludo’.