[Mageia-webteam] [Mageia-sysadm] Viewvc installation

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op maandag 24 januari 2011 14:46:09 schreef Michael Scherer:
> 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 )

i want svn.mageia.org, so perhaps instead of redirect, you could do a 
proxypass (with some caching; it's mostly static anyway)? then for all i care, 
you can use viewvc or something else, if something else is done later on.