On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Artemio wrote:
Hello, Bryce!
Well, I have a pretty good experience with shell scripting and with PHP too, so if these two will be enough - you can count on me.
There are several questions I want to ask:
- As I understood, the scripts should work on the SourceForge server or you
meant that someone should provide his own server for that?
We don't need someone to provide a server. So SourceForge would be an appropriate solution, but I'm open to better ideas if someone is familiar with other mirror systems, as long as the result is something that does not depend on any single person or company (i.e. we want to avoid single point of failures).
- <quote>Allows users a place on the web to go to to get the latest version
</quote> - where would this place be? At inkscape.org?
Yes, or if the files were uploaded to the SF file tracker, then it could be just that file listing. Basically I just mean, "We need a URL to point to from the download page" so people can easily navigate to it in their browser. So it doesn't need to be anything very fancy, it could be just a webpage with links to the snapshots.
- <quote> Doesn't place the administrative responsibility on a single
specific person </quote> - can't get what you mean here exactly.
Okay, basically there's two points. First, we don't want to have to burden just one person with the work of having to maintain and administrate it. For example, we'd like a situation like we have with the website, where anyone in the project can log in and update things as needed. This way nobody feels burdened by having to be responsible for it. Second, and more importantly, we don't want to have a single point of failure. If the person(s) maintaining it goes on vacation or gets tied up with other things, we need other project members to be able to step in and quickly and easily fill in the hole.
I'll be glad to help if I can. I can help with scripting but I don't have my own machine to do all that compilation stuff. I am pretty familiar with sourceforge's server project file hierarchy so I'd probably be able to handle this task - at least to try ;-)
Great, thanks! Sounds like you have the know-how to do it. Let me know your SF username and I'll add you to the project.
Do you know CVS? You can check out the inkscape_project module and create a subdirectory under that for this work.
You should probably also talk with Bob and review his setup and scripts; possibly you can reuse and/or build on his work, at least for the Win32 port. Hopefully he has time to help with advice, etc. too.
Bryce