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

[Stuart Young]

Perhaps just have the archive as a separate repo that gets pulled in by the
main ci yaml at build, just to populate the archives directory?

This avoids any possible submodule breakage (just not worth it here IMO),
with no chance of accidentally pulling down all the archives. I know a few
people who have git shortcuts that update submodules by default for
example, whether they exist or not.

Also I personally think the archives dir needs a bit of re-org/cleanup to
make it a bit more persistent over time (eg: like moving the old stuff into
the older-versions dir effectively breaks links for distros, etc). That's
getting more into content, but it'd be worth exploring if that should/would
get done before or after the move to a git repo (ie: would it being in git
make the process harder/a nightmare if it was to happen).


On 4 June 2018 at 06:19, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:

> 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
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Stuart Young (aka Cefiar)
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