[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/16] Move the Mesa Website to Sphinx

[Daniel Stone]

Hi Laura,

On 25 May 2018 at 01:27, Laura Ekstrand <laura at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> When reviewing these patches, please note:
>         1. This patch series does *not* touch content.  Please do not bikeshed
>            the content of webpages here.  That will be addressed in later
>            commits.
>         2. Please do *not* bikeshed website style here.  We are using the
>            classic ReadTheDocs style for now and we will update style in a
>            future commit.
>         3. I've done my best to make your current content look beautiful.  If
>            there's a problem, please let me know.
>         4. There were some commits to the website between when I started this
>            series and now. I've done my best to incorporate your changes.
>            So if you changed your content in the past two weeks, take a look
>            at your page.

One thing I've just remembered is that https://www.mesa3d.org/archive/
serves all the tarballs for Mesa releases. Given how Pages is
structured, we don't have a good way to redirect these to the old
server, so the Pages repository needs to hold all the tarballs. This
probably suggests to me that the site should live in a different repo,
where we can just commit all the tarballs.

I reflexively didn't love the idea of committing tarballs to a git
repository, but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea.
It makes it more clear where they're coming from, makes the provenance
easier to verify, gives us audit logs of who put them in, and so on.

Cheers,
Daniel