Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Please disallow www-commits in robots.txt

[Thérèse Godefroy]

Le 12/05/2023 à 19:24, Alfred M. Szmidt a écrit :
> Might be worth noting that www.gnu.org is mostly usable locally from
> the CVS checkout as well, if one needs to look things over.

It would work if the checked out files were complete HTML pages. Our
problem is that they are not. The banner, stylesheets, translation list,
menus and a few other things are included by SSIs. So you need an Apache
server with the proper configuration to see the page as it would appear
online. The other way to do it, of course, is to expand the page
manually. But believe me, this is a pain in the neck.


> So a patch to www-discuss@ or whatever for a unpublished article would
> be sufficient in postponing any publishing.  It would just be a matter
> of applying the patch, and looking at the web pages locally to see
> what is or isn't.


This is what we often do when working on the text itself. But we can't
work on anything that requires expanding the page.