-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/2012 10:32 PM, Ruediger Landmann wrote: > On 05/24/2012 09:27 AM, Ben Cotton wrote: >> It seems like a good candidate for being hosted outside of git. >> Perhaps we could get some space on fedorahosted.org for the >> files? > > > That would (kinda) solve the problem for now; but the deeper > underlying problem is that I think we're reaching the limit of what > we can sensibly do with Git :) > > This was only ever a stop-gap mechanism while we implemented > proper packaging for the docs; unfortunately, like many systems > that work "well enough", we never got to replacing it. > > Personal admission: it was actually my personal goal during my year > on the board to make this happen, but I never got to it ;) > > So: what do we need? > > 1. I think the procedural obstacles to getting every writer and > translator access to Koji are probably bigger than we want to > handle. We therefore need to stand up a build system of our own. > Ideally, this would be a Koji instance of our own: the benefit of > Koji is that it insulates the build process very well from issues > that might be specific to people's own machines. If that's too much > work to pull off in the short term, we should simply create a build > server with current publican and publican-fedora installed on it, > and access granted to anyone in the docs-publishers group. Packages > built on this machine would be placed in a repo. > > 2. We would need to modify the staging server that currently pulls > our docs.git to instead install packages built on the build > server. > > I think that if we pull together, we should be able to get this up > and running reasonably soon. Who's interested in collaborating on a > project like this? > > Cheers Rudi I am! I don't know if I can, time-wise and programming language-wise, but that's not what you asked. Christopher. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPvbGvAAoJEInCktGVqZ8VgQAH/1guB2AlqMYDYQO32tPka5ZW SLUxArMbu50hZQ+14VA7bKulTL3xP0sEp1jPyEDve4GaKtVhxDaW38pPYR6jMBQF THRPHsXPur0H5aw8bPmZZdnQ7gxFX3KF+zSFQK10MWUBADehjatk0ob7+BU5Eo42 xOKe59NwJC9hbqOobvNUAI/GwaLBepGRj7NzkCN0nOqfSDB+UgTC99zuh+1seCnw YYjoeSsOSebqXhpkGhbrYt4Uk+9H+IapUmG2suhPVn4SxHoQyEj+v8xXBXk2MPzf 2wYFIQTVWVXUvZyBcmSp8CZQ429bUKAVDbPd1TitxCVIxRqeXeSJOZ5JHmOyMA4= =S/fM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- docs mailing list docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/docs
