[tor-bugs] #3242 [Website]: Research moving the website from svn to git

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#3242: Research moving the website from svn to git
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     Reporter:  phobos   |      Owner:  phobos
         Type:  defect   |     Status:  reopened
     Priority:  normal   |  Milestone:  Tor Website 3.0
    Component:  Website  |    Version:
   Resolution:           |   Keywords:  www-team
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Comment (by mrphs):

 We talked about autobuilds and ways to avoid disaster, on `#tor-project`
 yesterday. There were two slightly different suggestions:

 {{{
 < phobos> git vs. svn is arguable, but not worth arguing over
 03:22 < mrphs> I remember weasel mentioned you didn't like automatic
 builds? and that was what stopped him from moving forward?
 03:22 < mrphs> I might be wrong tho.
 03:23 < arma81> mrphs: correct. it's really elegant to just have the
 webserver build itself after commit. easy to do. but,
 03:23 < arma81> what if somebody commits an rm -rf / ?
 03:23 < phobos> automatic builds are fine
 03:23 < phobos> automatic pushes to live are not fine
 03:23 < arma81> i guess the answer is, don't let people merge bad stuff.
 03:23 < arma81> phobos: if there's a website master git and only a few
 people can push to it, automatic builds of that sound fine to me.
 03:24 < mrphs> +1 ^
 03:24 < arma81> trouble is.. who are those people? you me helix mike?
 03:24 < phobos> the idea is to have a staging site
 03:24 < phobos> so commits to go staging
 03:24 < phobos> and then some small list of people push to live
 03:24 < arma81> well, that's one idea. it's not very gitty.
 03:26 < phobos> the code repo and process to go live are seperate things
 03:28 < mrphs> why does it have to be any different from other projects?
 every project has a maintainer, every random person can commit, submit a
 patch and it can be merged after review by its maintaner(s).
 03:29 < phobos> we're saying the same thing
 03:30 < phobos> anyone can commit/patch
 03:30 < phobos> it autobuilds to staging
 03:30 < phobos> then a webmaster commits to live
 03:30 < phobos> or pushes to live
 03:31 < mrphs> it's two (slightly) different ways to do the same thing.
 yes.
 03:31 < phobos> this avoids someone slipping in ads, subtle changes to
 text and having it go live
 03:32 < phobos> or missing brackets
 03:32 < phobos> etc
 03:33 < phobos> but really, this discussion should be in the ticket
 }}}

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