Re: Membership request for group GNU Octave

[Bill Denney]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  1-Feb-2006, Bill Denney wrote:
>
> | I was just able to commit it.  I'm guessing that there is another cron job
> | that will cause the pages to show up on
> | http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/.
>
> I'm not sure whether it is a cron job.  In any case, the page is there
> now.  If it does not show up for you, try forcing a reload with your
> browser.

It is working for me.  There is a delay, but I'm not positive how long the 
delay is.  It seems to be somewhere between 15 minutes and an hour.

> | Also, I was able to commit the entire m4 webpage system into the
> | site.
>
> And now those pages and the Makefile are also available on the web
> site.

I don't really see why having the Makefile there is a bad thing.  It's 
not a security risk, and it makes keeping the style of the website 
consistent simple.  With multiple website editors, keeping the style 
consistent would be easiest by using macros even with css.

> | I
> | think that it is useful to leave the make system in there.  It's pretty
> | easy to figure out that macros.m4 has most of the control and the .in
> | files are the specific pages.  It's also pretty easy to edit as it is (I
> | didn't know m4 at all before yesterday, but it was straightforward enough
> | so that I didn't have any problems).
>
> I've never liked committing both source and output files to a CVS
> archive, so I still think I would prefer to just have HTML+CSS files
> on the web and to keep the pages simple enough that this is all we
> need.

I don't generally like it either, but I think that it makes sense in this 
case.

> If we do decide to keep them, is there some other .htaccess magic that
> will keep them and other extraneous files hidden?

There is some simple .htaccess magic like

<FilesMatch "\.in$">
 Order allow,deny
 Deny from all
 Satisfy All
</FilesMatch>

That will block access to *.in.  Similar things could be done for all the 
files we want to hide.

Bill

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