[CREATE] Access to LGM website

[jon at rejon.org]

we can't change things now? we all just want to help make things better...

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
> hi yuval.
>
>> On March 18, 2011 06:39:01 pm a.l.e wrote:
>> > in my eyes, people who just want to do small edits on the site
>> > should access it through the web and not through ssh.
>>
>> I don't know the exact architecture of the site and I may be
>> suggesting something that is not feasible:
>>
>> why not having the code in a mercurial repository with a cron job (or
>> better: a hook) that updates it automatically from the repository?
>>
>> every project member can access [0], whether occasional small edits
>> or major redesign.
>>
>> That's going to be a lot less headache for you (or whoever is
>> managing the site), and with revision control you can easily undo if
>> somebody screwed up. You can also branch out development of the next
>> year and test it and turn it on only when it is ready...
>
> interesting concept.
>
> the content is managed in a wiki form and is stored in a database.
>
> the access to the server is only need to modify the forms and the templates.
>
> personally, i haven't yet used mercurial yet (nor git; i still normally use svn, which is not ok to publish a website).
>
> let's see how we will manage the site next year... i think that we will give up with anwiki.
> mercurial could then be a way to manage it!
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
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