From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Web page still says the main repo is bzr... Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:41:29 -0700 Message-ID: <20141113160216423433724@bob.proulx.com> References: <20141113105123.51f26ebe@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com> <20141113173047.GB10182@thyrsus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415922113 2885 80.91.229.3 (13 Nov 2014 23:41:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 23:41:53 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 00:41:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xp41I-0001nG-6g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2014 00:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34320 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xp41H-0001b0-RH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:41:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34335) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xp41A-0001aq-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:41:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xp415-0002uP-Ba for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:41:36 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:43863) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xp415-0002uL-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:41:31 -0500 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF64121839 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:41:29 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 988272DC38; Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:41:29 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: Bob Proulx , emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141113173047.GB10182@thyrsus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:177025 Archived-At: Thanks Perry for letting me know about this thread. Eric S. Raymond wrote: > Perry E. Metzger wrote: > > https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs > > > > still seems to indicate that the main repository uses bzr and not > > git. Perhaps someone can update it? > Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote: > > It referenced the git repo earlier today. It looks like some automatic > > procedure has overwritten the efforts of whoever edited it. There are lots of automated things that happen but this doesn't happen to be one of those. I see that this is talking about the text on the project page that resides in the "long description" section. This is a standard PHP-database form-display process. The "long description" is stored in the db. It is updated through the PHP code. It doesn't exist as a file on disk. The text is updated in the db. > I would do so, but I don't have the required access. You are not in the project admin list. But any of the listed "Project Admins" on the project page may do it. https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs/ Stefan, Eli, Miles, Francesco, Kim? One of you want to do it? Since there are five of you that can do this and only one of me I will avoid doing the update myself and instead teach those of you reading this how to do it. :-) I assume you have the default Savannah theme. Hover the mouse over "Main" and you will see "Edit Public Info" as one of the submenu items. Select that link. It will present a form edit page. The text you want to change is the "Long Description" text area field. Submit when you have edited that and it will save to the database and have immediate effect. The long description for emacs includes information about how to get the source code. It currently talks about both bzr and git. I think that is great and I would simply update it to talk about the current preferred form. For other projects if you look you will find that they don't talk about that there. With most random projects they just have a "Source Code" menu link navigation item. Hovering there will display "Use Git", "Use Bzr", "Use CVS", or whatever. The Emacs page currently shows all three there because all three features are enabled. If you use "Main", "Select Features" and turn off CVS and Bzr but leave Git then it will only present the Git documentation under the "Source Code" hover. It won't delete the CVS and Bzr repositories though and if you already know how to access them that access continues. (At some point I recommend disabling updates to those old repositories just to prevent future confusion.) Personally I advise everyone to use the "My Account Conf" link on the left to change their personal preferences to check the "Use the Stone Age menu" setting. That way these menus will be displayed plainly and not hidden under a hover. That along with "Show feedback in relative position" is my normal configuration. Then all menu options are always displayed and not hidden under a HTML CSS cascaded menu. IMNHO it just makes using the site easier. YMMV. Hope that helps! Bob