Re: Restructuring the contrib folder

Hi Stefan,

you wrote:

> Lübbe Onken wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'd like to move things around a bit in the contrib folder. It contains
>> stuff that is user-relevant and developer-relevant, but not in
>> consistent locations.
>>
>> My Suggestion is to junk the "other" folder (or rename it to "dev") and
>> have two main folders, either:
>>
>> a) "contrib-user" and "contrib-dev" next to each other or
>
> I'd prefer this one.

I like Otos suggestion about a "tools" subproject too.

>> b) "contrib" and "contrib/dev" (less renaming and moving around)
>>
>> "contrib-user" or just "contrib" as it is now
>> (This folder should contain only stuff that is interesting for users)
>> - hook-scripts
>> - issue-tracker-plugins
>> - diff-scripts
>
> Hmm - the issue tracker plugins are most likely only interesting to
> developers, not users.

Plugin developers are users of TortoiseSVN too :) What I want to place
inside contrib-dev is the stuff that only we, the TSVN developers need.
So a "tools" subproject would serve the same purpose.

>> "contrib-dev" or "contrib/dev", a sub-folder of contrib
>> (This folder should contain only stuff that is used by the TortoiseSVN
>> dev team)
>> - drupal-modules
>> - po-checker
>> - translation-status
>
> I don't think we should name that folder 'contrib' because it doesn't
> contain user contributions.
>
> I suggest to move the 'translation-status' and 'po-checker' inside our
> doc folder somewhere.

These tools don't just check the docs.

> I'm not sure about the 'drupal-modules', but IMHO it would belong into
> the www folder.

Isn't the content of the www folder automatically placed on the
tigris.org web site? I wouldn't want that to happen.

>> Now where shall we put:
>> other/svnindex (I guess contrib-user)
>
> yes.
>
>> other/tcvs.reg (no idea)
>> other/tsvn.reg (no idea)
>
> That too belongs in contrib-user.
>
>
>> Suggestions please :)
>>
>> Some of the suggested moves/renames surely affect the setup scripts, so
>> the script wizards should speak up.
>
> That's not a big problem. After reorganizing this, the nightly build
> might be broken for a day or two - no big deal.
>
> If we're reorganizing stuff anyway: I really don't like the externals in
> drupal-modules/translation-status. I know you need them for the scripts
> which run on the server. But they already *are* in our sourcetree and
> the externals duplicate them.
> Would it be possible to change either the scripts to use the original
> files or change the update script on the server to get them from the
> original location? Or if that's not suitable, create a new folder in the
> repo root where those externals are set and then use that folder instead
> on the server?

The translation status report on our web site runs "svn up" so that it
always has the latest version of the include and .po files. My idea
behind using these two externals is that we just have to change the
external and the translation status report automatically does the right
thing next time it is run. No need to log into the server.
Alternatively we could store the branch name inside the script and the
script checks out a fresh working copy each time it is run.
But if we come back to Otos suggestion about a "tools" subproject inside
the repo root, we could place everything there, including the externals.
I think this is the way to go unless someone comes up with a better idea.

I'm also thinking whether it would be a good idea to move all the .po
files (doc and gui) into one folder and clear up some of the relics of
old times. But doc/po isn't a very logical place to put the gui
translations and moving the doc translations out of the doc subdirectory
isn't logical either. The doc subproject is still self-contained (I hope :))

Cheers
- Lübbe

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