Re: Website repository and SVN

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On 6 Dec 2005, at 5:51 am, James Henstridge wrote:

> Thomas Wood wrote:
>
> > Some of the websites (mail.gnome.org for example) are currently in a
> > separate cvs repository from the main gnome cvs. I think this is a 
> > good
> > idea, and we should move all the websites into a 'website' repository.
> > This would help keep non-application stuff out of the main gnome
> > repository, and also help people to locate and contribute to the 
> > websites.
> Why exactly is it a good idea to separate them into a CVS root?  It
> doesn't affect performance of checkouts (and still wouldn't with the 
> SVN
> repository layout Ross has suggested, where each module gets it's own
> SVN repository).
>
> On the downside, it doesn't get mirrored to the anonymous CVS
> repositories, and isn't included on the viewcvs page.  I realise these
> problems could be fixed, but they wouldn't have been an issue if those
> websites had remained under the main CVS root.

I didn't really propose it as a performance issue, but simply as a 
organisational issue. It just seems logical to me to have the 
repositories separated into groups. The websites are not related 
(technically) to the software, so why mix them together?

It is purely subjective, but I think from an administrative point of 
view it would make the repositories cleaner and more manageable. Either 
way, we ought to make a decision, since the current situation is that 
we have both of these scenarios implemented. Personally, I would prefer 
the websites are kept seperated from the software repositories.

-Thomas