Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Allowing git repos to automatically push to gnu.org/software/$PROJECT

[Daniel Katz]

Yes. If someone wants to use CVS to update a project's webpage, they
should not have to change their current workflow at all.

Thanks for answering regardless; it's always great to get as much input
as possible on these types of changes!

On 7/21/21 7:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: savannah-hackers-public@gnu.org
>> From: Daniel Katz <daniel-k@fsf.org>
>> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 16:41:38 -0400
>>
>> Right now, wildebeest (the gnu.org server) has a collection of scripts
>> that grab files from Savannah and put them into the correct place on
>> gnu.org. According to rwp, there is one script/CVS hook running on
>> Savannah that pings wildebeest but I do not know for sure. I don't have
>> access to Savannah and somebody I asked to look through Savannah could
>> not find anything related to that.
>>
>> I plan to modify the scripts to work with both Git and CVS and hope to
>> keep rewriting at a minimum. I'm documenting the current system right
>> now so I know what needs to be modified and what can stay the same or
>> even be deleted. The new system will also be deployed to the new
>> Wildebeest server when it's ready.
> So you envision no changes to the user side of this, i.e. for those
> who edit and update documentation stored on gnu.org/software via CVS?
>
>> I'd love to talk with anyone who has knowledge of this system!
>>
>> I'm also wondering if anyone knows of or has access to the CVS
>> hook/script that is on Savannah?
> Not me, sorry.
>
> Thanks for working on this.