[Mageia-webteam] Viewvc installation

Mon Jan 24 14:46:09 CET 2011

Hi, 
+
+since people have asked for it since a long time, and since no much
+people commented on viewvc vs websvn
+( https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-sysadm/2011-January/002145.html ), and so based on the fact that websvn run svn to get information ( thus would potentially overload the server when google bot team with yahoo to explore the server and our patches ), I have setup viewvc.
+
+I can also setup websvn if someone really need, but a quick check showed
+that both tools are quite similar in term of features, the only
+difference being the usage of svn commandline.
+
+There is 2 questions left ( with a default answer with a timeout of 2
+days ) :
+- what should be the name ( svn.mageia.org cannot be used, as it point
+to a different server, a redirect can be setup to another url
+however ) ?
+( default answer : viewvc.mageia.org )
+
+- do people from the web team want to customize it ( ie, if someone
+devote time for that, i can add it to web like the others web
+application )  ?
+( default answer : I will report this to when it will be needed )
+
+For the moment, it is not in the dns, but should soon be so people can
+take a look at it. 
+
+I would just ask to not take the url as granted, in case someone find a
+better name ( I am not completely satisfied by viewvc.mageia.org, but it
+the easiest to type that I could find, and was more than enough for the
+test I add to do ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+