Re: [Savannah-hackers] groupedit.php modifications

[mathieu]

Le mar 28 mai 2002 à 16h38, Jaime E . Villate a écrit :
> 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.


ok, we'll make this modification


> > 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

I think more clever to update the Homepage link and make sure that 
every links to the homepage works in the same way than modifying each 
project homepage link for each project.

This modification could be made easily, I'll take a look at this 
tomorrow.


> 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

I'm not agree. It means spending time but it doesnt really give us 
something better.
The database homepage link is interesting only if this is not a 
standard url. If it is not, so, the project admin will update this link.
If it is a standard url (gnu.org fsf.org), I dont see any reason to 
spend time to give more informations than the ones that can be easily 
guessed.

. 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.

If thinks that it is an unclever using of database to use it to store 
informations than can be guessed.


> 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.

I will make it so.


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