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

[Ineiev]

On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 07:52:41PM +0200, Thérèse Godefroy wrote:
> 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.

These things can be developed in a public sandbox, i.e. /server/staging/...

> > So a patch to www-discuss@ or whatever for a unpublished article would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.

...and drafts of article texts don't require expanding the page---not
every edit.

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