Re: [Savannah-hackers] groupedit.php modifications

[Jaime E . Villate]

Hi Mathieu,

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:33:35AM +0200, mathieu wrote:
> I've modified this file to permit us to do faster the registration 
> approval stuff.
> 
> Now, in fact, only the Status, Public and GNU Package (or not) need 
> really to be edited, when approving a project.

Nice, but there are still some errors:

> The html_cvs is defined with the system name and there's an option 
> *auto* that set the html_cvs according to the choice you have made 
> about GNU Package (or not).

The problem is that /non-gnu/ and /software/ are not the only two choices for
html_cvs.  For website projects, html_cvs could be anything and that's
why it is important to keep a text field where you can write the name of the
directory.

The "auto" option could be separated from the text field we had previously, in
such a way that if one chooses the "auto" option, the nane of the directory in
that text field would be ignored. But if one did not choose auto, the value in
the text field would be used.
 
> Also, there's apparently no need to "change the home page link for 
> www.freesoftware.fsf.org/project instead of the default 
> www.gnu.org/software/project".
> The only use of this link is, apparently, on the project_home page.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^
It is used somewhere else: for example take a look at:
   http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/engineer
Next to the "Home" icon you see the correct homepage:
   http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/engineer
But in the horizontal menu on top of the page "Homepage" shows a wrong value:
   http://www.gnu.org/software/engineer

In any case, I think it is better to keep the correct value in the Database
and instead of trying to guess the homepage, use what the DB says. As it is
right now, if we used a database dump to reconstruct Savannah's
directories, we would get wrong information for the projects that were
approved since the 23.

I think we can simplify the registration process (not having to go to the
project's admin page and change the homepage) and still keep the right
information into the Database.

I'll work on this part and I will leave to Mathieu the task of changing
"auto" to allow for Website only projects which can have any value in
cvs_html, since he's more familiar with the changes he did.

Cheers,
Jaime