On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:58 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 10:04 PM, Johan Corveleyn <jcorvel_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org> wrote:
>>> On 05.10.2017 22:36, Johan Corveleyn wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>>>>> Devil's advocate hat on, and in light of Brane's sibling reply, let me
>>>>> describe how an svnmucc workflow might work.
>>>> Thanks, but I prefer the merge workflow. It seems more natural to me,
>>>> and I think it's more likely to be used by other svn users out there,
>>>> in case they have such a workflow. So it seems like the more
>>>> interesting dog food to me :-).
>>>>
>>>> I'm not very good at writing down an accurate procedure, but I still
>>>> think it should be something like I wrote in my first mail in this
>>>> thread:
>>>>
>>>>> 1) Commit to staging. Other devs get the commit mail via the
>>>>> notifications@ list.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2) Wait for others to review (the commit mail is the notification that
>>>>> something needs to be reviewed). In case of large or sensitive
>>>>> changes, preferably send a mail to dev@ to draw extra attention.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3) If any other committer says +1, go ahead and "promote" (merge) to
>>>>> the live site.
>>>>>
>>>>> 4) If no response after 1 week? 3 days? ...? go ahead and promote to
>>>>> live site (lazy consensus).
>>>> As Brane suggested, let's do everything in this direction (test on
>>>> staging first, then merge to publish), except for security
>>>> announcements.
>>>>
>>>> And as Daniel suggested, let's serve the staging site via
>>>> https://subversion-staging.apache.org/ (I'd say we ask infra to set
>>>> this up for us).
>>>
>>> Sounds like a plan.
>>>
>>> -- Brane
>>
>> Sorry, I dropped this on the floor trying to catch some other things.
>>
>> I'll try to pick up the pieces now :-) ...
>>
>> svn cp $URL/site/publish $URL/site/staging
>> open infra ticket for serving /site/staging on subversion-staging.a.o
>> put a short description of our desired workflow in /site/README
>
> Done. The infra ticket is here:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-15323
>
> The description of the workflow in site/README is more or less
> copy-pasted from this mail thread. Can probably be improved ...
> (anyone: feel free). While writing it down, I realized that this
> "promote from staging to publish with complete merges" isn't
> parallellizable (if two committers want to make two distinct changes,
> and not merge all of it in one go to publish). Oh well, it's a start.
It took a while for subversion-staging to be set up correctly (with
server-side includes etc), but now it's there:
http://subversion-staging.apache.org/
So we can now fully utilize the "edit website via staging" workflow as
described in http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/site/README
--
Johan
Received on 2017-11-13 10:31:13 CET