[Clipart] uploading error

[Bryce Harrington]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Jonadab the Unsightly One wrote:
> One more thing, though:  a permissions issue.  Probably I just need to
> be added to the group, or something.  Here's the specific error I'm
> getting:
> 
> tail: cannot open `error.log' for reading: Permission denied
> 
> If I touch a file in my home directory, it belongs to group
> freedesktop, rather than clipart, so I suspect the problem is one of
> group membership on my account.

There is a Bugzilla set up on freedesktop.org, that appears to be the
new place for requesting admin help.  Has been working ok so far.

> Even if there's not a lot of new clipart, I think we should go ahead
> and do a release anyway, for three reasons:
> 
> 1.  It'll give us a chance to hash out the details of the release
>     process and make sure we know how it works.  Last time, for 0.08,
>     we started from a prerelease tarball that Bryce put together; this
>     time we should make sure somebody besides Bryce knows how to
>     generate that.

This works for me; I have been increasingly tied up with Inkscape
development of late, so would appreciate sharing this duty.  We're
talking about pumping out another Inkscape release in a few weeks, so
I'm going to be particularly tied up with that in the near term.

The process of making the tarball is pretty straightforward, although I
think it could be improved on.  Here is my 'cheat sheet' for doing a
release: 

1.  Determine the previous number, old_rel_num

2.  new_rel_number = old_rel_num + 0.01

3.  Get the previous openclipart package

4.  Copy openclipart-$old_rel_nu openclipart-$new_rel_num

5.  Rsync down the incoming directory
    rsync --delete -av -e ssh \
        freedesktop.org:/projects/clipart/public_html/incoming \
        ocal_incoming_$new_rel_num

6.  bash
    $ svg_validate --debug=2 ocal_incoming_$new_rel_num  &> LOG

7.  cp -rf default-0.00/* openclipart-$new_rel_num
    mv LOG openclipart-$new_rel_num/LOG.txt
    rm -rf default-0.00

8.  Review directory

9.  scp $distname.tgz
    freedesktop.org:/projects/clipart/public_html/downloads/

10. Update clipart download and index pages & deploy updated pages

11.  Remove the old incoming directory

12.  Send out email notices to clipart at freedesktop.org
     inkscape-user at lists.sf.net., inkscape-devel at lists.sf.net, and more

Jonadab, would you be willing to take the lead on this release?

> 2.  There are some adjustments to the directory structure of the
>     release that I'd like to make, notably within computer/icons
> 
> 3.  It's an opportunity to make sure we have things put back
>     together and working after the outage.

Yes, this'd be a good way to assure ourselves that things are put back
together.  

Meanwhile, over the next month or two, I will try to recruit some
additional teammembers.  I think we're about two perl/php coders short.
6-person teams seem to be a lot more robust, and I think it'd be fun to
have a couple new participants.

Bryce