Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Final-stage work/changes on adding the Git homepage source code web browsing option.

[Ineiev]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 02:46:49PM -0500, Ian Kelling wrote:
> Ineiev <ineiev@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > The group will use no more than one VCS for its homepage; a new
> > field 'url_git_viewcvs_homepage' will only add unneeded complexity.
>
> Ayushman didn't explain some of the ideas behind this. I believe we
> actually want projects to be able to have CVS and Git homepage
> repositories simultaneously on the savannah side, and then be able to
> choose and switch back and forth between which one is the source of the
> actually published homepage.

Still it will be single repository at the same time, and in fact,
non-default values are (and will be) effectively never used.

There is no need for this new field, and for any other new fields,
on the other hand, the harm would be more than palpable.

It's much easier to workaround such things at the design stage
than fixing them after they are built in the package.

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