[Joe Schaefer]
> They're using the ASF CMS to manage the www.openoffice.org website,
> which is full of 10 years worth of accumulated legacy spanning 50 or
> so different natural languages. The CMS is "too slow" during commits
> to template files or such which change the generated html content of
> virtually every file on the site.
Wait, so, the CMS regenerates stuff when you change a template. Fair
enough, that's just caching. But you are saying it also _stores_ the
generated content in a _repository_? To me that would be, as they say,
"the real wtf".
I don't think Subversion was ever meant to be a backend for
archive.org, storing snapshots of generated websites. Obviously it can
be used for that, but IMO much better to just generate the website,
store the html files on a flat filesystem, and regenerate from history
if you need history.
> 1) convert the templating system to use SSI, which would eliminate
> most of the sledgehammer type commits.
Of course SSI is an option, but just storing the generated files on a
normal filesystem instead of in a repository would (I suspect) be a
much less disruptive way to stop putting 9 GB of generated files in svn
at a time.
Received on 2012-01-05 10:48:26 CET