I'd like to add precisions to clarify the way this will function. Until now we were working on /web (http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/) and the official site was /web too.
Now we have a static copy on /test. Its purpose is only to check that it is a perfect mirror of /web for now. If nobody is complaining about this copy, in a near future I'll rerun the snapshoting script to update /test from /web. Then /web will be renamed: * /web → becomes… say /trunk, or /dev, or /writers, or I don't know what, let's call it /spip :) * /test → becomes /web We work on /spip while visitors are still browsing /web. Then we'll enter a semi-automated update process: 1. /spip is copied into a new /test snapshot 2. someone (me!) checks that there is no error 3. /web is removed 4. /test becomes the new /web Of course if there is no issue after each step 1), we'll be able to add some automated tests (eg. the total size is similar between /web and /test) so that the snapshot automatically goes online every night or so. There would be a frozen period (no snapshot) while the documentation is being updated to be ready for the coming new release. JM. > Hello there! > > I'm glad to announce that I put online a first static copy of our > website for testing purposes: > > http://www.doudoulinux.org/test/ > > I recall that the objective is to have a read-only version for our > official online site and an R/W version (the work copy) to work > without worrying about potential consequences (see ticket > https://gna.org/task/?7348). The work copy is just the current Spip > website that you all now. The static read-only version is a Html copy > of Spip made with Httrack. The static version is to be synchronized > with Spip regularly of course :). > > Benefits are the following: > > * Documentation can be updated during a period of several weeks before > the next release is out without introducing inconsistencies relatively > to the available CD's online (which are still the former release). > > * Web designers can test Html/CSS/JavaScript/skeletons without > worrying about consequences on the official website. They can even ask > to have a tarball (15MB) of the full static website to work offline > :). > > * Html pages will be likely served faster than Spip pages, resulting > in a faster website. > > * We can later plan to have mirrors of our website around the world > ;). > > As a result I invite you to test the static version as soon as > possible and report about any eventual issue. Pay a particular > attention to links. Note that as long as you're not clicking on a link > outside of the domain www.doudoulinux.org, you should stay in the > static copy whose pages start with “http://www.doudoulinux.org/test/”. > > Cheers, > JM. > > _______________________________________________ > Doudoulinux-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
