[Mageia-sysadm] Viewvc installation

Wed Jan 26 20:15:31 CET 2011

Le lundi 24 janvier 2011 à 14:46 +0100, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> 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 )
+
+So for now, the proposal :
+websvn
+svnweb
+svn-browse
+vc
+codeview
+svn
+
+svn is a no-go, for reasons exposed before.
+
+vc and codeview should IMHO be kept for something that is not svn
+specific, and viewvc is ( unless we go back to cvs, of course... ). I
+would love to have a codeview that point to svn/git/whatever +
+instructions or something like that ( like a coder portal ), so running
+viewvc on that vhost do not seems a good idea. Ie, it would waste a good
+name for something too specific. So I would in favor of not using them.
+
+websvn is the name of another software to view svn repository. We all
+agree to not use viewvc for the vhost, so using websvn seems rather
+couter intuitive.
+
+this let us with svn-browse vs svnweb. svnweb is shorter, and do not
+have a hyphen so it is easier to type.
+
+So svnweb ?
+
+Ie :
+
+svnweb -> point to viewvc
+
+svn -> redirect on svnweb ( later, if enough people complain about
+this )
+
+vc/codeview/later -> some portal that explain where to find code, how to
+get it, licensing, etc ?   ( later )
+
+So anybody has something else to add ( or strongly disagree and can give
+convincing reasons ) ?
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+