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Bug 359738

Summary: Migrate /articles to Git
Product: Community Reporter: Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton>
Component: WebsiteAssignee: phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: contact, pwebster
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://www.eclipse.org/articles
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 359737    

Description Wayne Beaton CLA 2011-10-03 13:05:41 EDT 
This directory contains dozens (hundreds) of articles. It's 113MB in CVS. Is that considered big?

It'd be nice if we could make it easier for somebody to make contributions to their own articles, but is it too much to expect an author to replicate a 113MB repository?

I loathe to make a single repository for each article.
Comment 1 Denis Roy CLA 2011-10-03 13:07:04 EDT 
Don't forget git compresses stuff... If your articles are in text, or PDF, the repo size should be relatively small.
Comment 2 Wayne Beaton CLA 2012-03-22 13:02:44 EDT 
Is it realistic to target moving this directory from CVS to Git in the week following EclipseCon? i.e. let's use this as the test case; the rest of the EF-maintained sites will cascade from there.
Comment 3 Denis Roy CLA 2012-03-23 14:03:33 EDT 
It sure is .. but first we'd need to resolve bug 359737 comment 3.
Comment 4 Wayne Beaton CLA 2012-06-13 15:50:53 EDT 
The articles directory has been migrated to /gitroot/www.eclipse.org/articles.git

Now what? Can you set up a job to push/pull to the website from here?

Should we configure the CVS directory to be read-only?
Comment 5 Wayne Beaton CLA 2012-07-31 11:59:38 EDT 
/articles has been migrated and the website is now updating from the Git repository. Declaring victory!