[Savannah-hackers] website -> savannah migration and auto-updates files

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

There are at least two cases, /events.html and /server/new-software.html,
where files are updated automatically by cron jobs in /var/www/.  I can't
see anywhere that this has been addressed yet.  Have we addressed it yet?

Here's an idea:

  Only templates and programs are actually stored in subversions' CVS
  server.  That way, the generated HTML files would be basically "derived
  objects".  They could be placed in the .cvsignore in the directories,
  perhaps with a comment indicating what script generates them.  I could
  make /events_template.html, which I would grab each night.


Note, BTW, that the /events.html is generated from data that is kept on
fencepost.  I transfer the generated file over now by putting it in the
alpha FTP directory.  I suppose it can continue to be done that way, but it
means I would have to:

     (0) grab the template off www.gnu.org

     (1) generate the events.html

     (2) put the events.html in alpha.gnu.org/

     (3) have gnudist:~www/bin/nightly grab the file and put it in place

This isn't that hard to do (only step (0) is new), but it isn't very clean.

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