Re: [AD] ChangeLogs on website?

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On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 17:17 +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> On 2005-11-16, Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 00:38 +1100, Peter Wang wrote:
> > > Would it be hard to show up-to-date ChangeLogs on the web site?  I was
> > > thinking we could just have a cron job that runs cvs2cl.pl nightly to
> ...
> > I wonder if there's a way to only re-create the logs from the last day
> > from the cron-job instead of the whole. cvs2cl runs like half an hour
> > for me locally - but I guess it is no problem on SF, which has direct
> > access to the cvs repository.
> 
> Ouch.  It usually takes only a couple of minutes for me.  I guess you
> will be really happy with SVN, especially if you use SVK with it :-)

Yes, the local caching of the latest revision makes a huge difference
with SVN for my current internet connection :) I'm not sure I'll need
SVK, but I saw it mentioned in an arch vs svn comparison recently. I
guess it would be mostly useful for trying out big changes..

> > Anyway, I like the idea. Is there something like group crontabs where to
> > put it? Else, simply put the above into your personal crontab on SF,
> > directing the output to /home/groups/a/al/alleg/htdocs/changelog.html or
> > something.
> 
> I thought Grzegorz should do it, since I remember he had some cron jobs
> to make weekly snapshots already?
> 

And a cronjob to daily update the website from CVS I think. Yes, best to
have one person run them all :)

-- 
Elias Pschernig





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