Re: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-12-01 Thread The Web Maestro
On Nov 25, 2004, at 2:56 AM, Christian Geisert wrote: The Web Maestro wrote: [..] On a similar note, I am 'contemplating' committing the xml-fop/build/ folder ('built' by apache-forrest-0.6). My reasoning for this is two-fold: 1. it contains the FOP web site (which I've spent a significant amoun

Re: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-25 Thread The Web Maestro
On Nov 24, 2004, at 5:19 PM, Peter B. West wrote: Clay, Let me say, Clay, thank you *very*, *very* much for taking care of the alt-design tab. Have I drawn your attention to the fact that I am *very happy* that you have taken care of this? (I have thanked Clay personally out-of-band for his wor

Re: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-25 Thread Christian Geisert
The Web Maestro wrote: [..] On a similar note, I am 'contemplating' committing the xml-fop/build/ folder ('built' by apache-forrest-0.6). My reasoning for this is two-fold: 1. it contains the FOP web site (which I've spent a significant amount of time to re-create). The generated website should

Re: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-24 Thread Peter B. West
The Web Maestro wrote: BTW -- thanks *very* much for taking care of the alt-design tab, I greatly appreciate the effort in simplifying our site. Glad to be of service. If there are other things which anyone thinks can improve the site (e.g. consolidating pages, removing moved/incorrect/inapprop

RE: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-24 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: The Web Maestro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Also, Andreas is correct that the site is built from the source (and I > didn't forget that! ;-)). Yeah, make them sweat at least as hard as you --that way, your effort will be even more appreciated :-) Greetz, An

Re: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-24 Thread The Web Maestro
On Nov 24, 2004, at 1:39 PM, The Web Maestro wrote: On Nov 24, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Glen Mazza wrote: Also, the output on minotaur should be viewable via ViewCVS anyway, correct? (We were doing manual updates to the website to fix the breadcrumb issue--we went through ViewCVS to find the correct pag

Re: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-24 Thread The Web Maestro
On Nov 24, 2004, at 1:16 PM, Glen Mazza wrote: For #1) Wouldn't we have to keep doing that whenever a change is made to the website as a result? I'm concerned with it falling out of sync with the production website. True, and this is a significant concern. Whomever updated the web site would have

RE: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-24 Thread Andreas L. Delmelle
> -Original Message- > From: Glen Mazza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --- The Web Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On a similar note, I am 'contemplating' committing > > the xml-fop/build/ folder ('built' by apache-forrest-0.6). > > My reasoning for this is two-fold: > > 1. it conta

Re: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-24 Thread Glen Mazza
--- The Web Maestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 24, 2004, at 11:52 AM, The Web Maestro wrote: > > On a similar note, I am 'contemplating' committing > the xml-fop/build/ > > folder ('built' by apache-forrest-0.6). My > reasoning for this is > > two-fold: > > 1. it contains the FOP web si

Re: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-24 Thread The Web Maestro
On Nov 24, 2004, at 11:52 AM, The Web Maestro wrote: On a similar note, I am 'contemplating' committing the xml-fop/build/ folder ('built' by apache-forrest-0.6). My reasoning for this is two-fold: 1. it contains the FOP web site (which I've spent a significant amount of time to re-create). 2. i

Re: Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-24 Thread The Web Maestro
Yeah, Glen... On Nov 23, 2004, at 8:18 PM, Glen Mazza wrote: Clay, I'm noticing a lot of .zips and .bak backup files in our cvs directories [1] -- this seems unnecessary and a bit messy for a version control system, as everyone who "cvs checkout"s or "cvs updates" is now downloading these files.

Unnecessary zipping and backups?

2004-11-23 Thread Glen Mazza
Clay, I'm noticing a lot of .zips and .bak backup files in our cvs directories [1] -- this seems unnecessary and a bit messy for a version control system, as everyone who "cvs checkout"s or "cvs updates" is now downloading these files. Instead of zip files, usually the solution is just to "cvs