[Mageia-sysadm] Viewvc installation

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op dinsdag 25 januari 2011 21:37:08 schreef Pascal Terjan:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 18:23, Maarten Vanraes
> 
> <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Op maandag 24 januari 2011 22:03:35 schreef nicolas vigier:
> >> On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Maarten Vanraes wrote:
> >> > i want svn.mageia.org, so perhaps instead of redirect, you could do a
> >> > proxypass (with some caching; it's mostly static anyway)? then for all
> >> > i care, you can use viewvc or something else, if something else is
> >> > done later on.
> >> 
> >> Why do you want it on svn.mageia.org ? Unless there's a good reason, we
> >> should try to keep it simple. And using a proxy on valstar to redirect
> >> to alamut, which is using a copy of the svn from valstar, is not very
> >> simple. And we're trying to avoid installing too many things on valstar.
> > 
> > the only reason i want it on svn; is because that makes it all the more
> > transparent. ie: for users working with svn just means using
> > svn.mageia.org . if it's svn:// or http:// or svn+ssh:// or whatever.
> 
> svn is accessible on there with svn:// or svn+ssh:// and we can add
> http:// but that would be to use svn, not for the interface
> 
> > tbh a simple proxypass on a machine that has apache(if indeed it has.)
> > anyway, is not so complicated. with caching on it, it would reduce the
> > load to the svn machine.
> > 
> > perhaps with this setup it would not be needed to have a copy (due to the
> > caching), but i can be wrong.
> > 
> > in any case, keeping simple is the best option, but i think from user pov
> > using svn.mageia.org is just simple for them.
> 
> Well using svn for svn access (over anything, including http) and
> something else for a web interface makes sense to me

Well, i gave my thoughts on it, you all can decide on what you want.

NOTE: you can even have both svn access and viewvc interface over the same 
server... like svn.mageia.org/viewvc could be proxypassed to the viewvc 
installation.