using CVS and Re: [Gzz] Paperbot status

[Tuukka Hastrup]

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 05:49:43PM +0300, Tuukka Hastrup wrote:
> > First problem comes with files being in some specific places and owned by 
> > some specific user who doesn't have write access to CVS. So I'd have to do 
> > anonymous checkout and symlink the files. And every time I twid something, 
> > I'd need to commit and update. Here one more problem is that the system 
> > spans several machines and I'd need to update several times.
> 
> So problem one is laziness? ;)

You could call it laziness :-) I could call the situation impractical. 
Could you handle a situation where you'd always need to commit before you 
could test the effect of your modification?

> Ahh, ok, I didn't understand what you meant by review. Ok, it's
> a valid reason because the code is running live on a server and 
> could do damage if exploited maliciously.
> 
> Who is able to review the code?

I would suggest Janne, if he wouldn't mind and had the time. I think 
he's written HTTP servers in Bash or how was it ?-)

> > Another thing was that the scripts contain configuration variables which 
> > are better unpublished.
> 
> Ok, valid as well.

You could call this one laziness as well ;-) But seriously, in the 
prototyping phase, the separation would've brought in otherwise unneeded 
complexity.


I have to admit I probably went too long before targeting the addition to 
CVS, as CVS undeniably has strong points for it. What do you think, do all 
the deployment scripts of STORM be in CVS, even though they are of the 
type "cd to some directory, cvs update and call some make target"? I think 
they're not that important, and the time could be better spent in 
documenting the interfaces so that anyone could come up with such scripts 
easily. I mean documentation such as storm/README's "Our software can:" 
and "Usage".


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