[fpc-other] Re: Offer to repair and maintain the FPC community website (repeat msg, no HTML)

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Tomas Hajny wrote:

> - As of now, the content of the static pages is managed on our SVN 
> server in the form of simplified HTML pages (the full pages are 
> regenerated in case changes in SVN on daily bases, or the refresh may 
> be enforced manually).

I've been watching the discussion elsewhere and note that Peter threw 
his hands up in horror when he found himself looking at 
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/

Peter, I don't like asking this, but do you understand what SVN 
(Subversion) is and appreciate how crucial this sort of thing is to most 
projects' management these days?

> - It's worth mentioning that even the dependency on SourceForge which 
> provides us with means for much wider and more efficient distribution 
> of load generated by release downloads is a bit problematic because 
> it increases efforts necessary for the release processes (due to more 
> complex procedures for publishing of files) and it also imposes 
> certain restrictions to us.

Including that Sourceforge refuses to serve files to countries 
blacklisted by the USA.

> - Dead links are obviously the easiest thing to solve. You can easily 
> start immediately by reporting them through our bug tracker.

http://mantis.freepascal.org/main_page.php Subscription required to 
report bugs.

If you come across any TLAs you don't understand or any areas where 
management of documentation etc. appears to require in-depth knowledge 
of its content (i.e. Pascal/Lazarus) please yell.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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