IRC session: Managing our website with Lenya

Hi Lenya devs,

here's a summary of the IRC session. The IRC log can be
viewed at
ht
tp://wiki.apache.org/lenya/IrcLogDocuPublication

The topic was the migration of our website to Lenya.

There was a consensus among the participants that we should
migrate to 
Lenya, mainly for the following reasons:

- Test scenario for collaborative editing (eat our own
dogfood)
- Marketing

Conditions:
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- The content must be stored in the SVN repository.
- We can't commit from the zones server.
- We can't allow public access.

Issues:
=======

The central question is if we should run Lenya on the zones
server or on 
the local machine.

Advantages and disadvantages of the zones server:
(+) Testing scenario for collaborative work
(+) No synchronization via SVN after each change necessary
(-) Difficult SVN commit scenario
(-) It's hard to let the author of a change be the
committer

Apparently most people could live with the circumstance that
the author 
of a change is not the committer.

When running the app on the zones, every once in a while
someone would 
have to commit the content:
- Copy the content from the zones server to the local
sandbox via scp
- Commit the changes from your local sandbox
- Do an SVN update on the zones server

It would be discouraged to edit locally, so that SVN
conflicts on the 
zones server can be avoided. If conflicts occur, they would
have to be 
resolved manually on the zones server.

Another issue is revision control. One option would be to
set Lenya's 
revision history length to 0 (i.e. no backups). This means
that only SVN 
is used for versioning. Rolling back would mean (a) doing it
manually in 
the SVN sandbox on the zones server or (b) paste old content
in the 
source editor.

Please add more information in case I forgot something.
TIA!

-- Andreas


-- 
Andreas Hartmann, CTO
BeCompany GmbH
http://www.becompany.ch
Tel.: +41 (0) 43 818 57 01


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