Last call! [Re: Call for FreeBSD status reports]

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-01-18 17:05, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
> CC'd to 'www@'
> {discussion about adding a web page for submitting status reports..]
> [julian shows rough prototype and suggests he can get proffesional
> help]   :-)
> (uh, from a perl/cgi proffesional co-worker that is...).
> asks where it should go..
>
>Scott Long wrote:
>>On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>> Ok I've co-opted one..
>>> I told him how terrible my prototype was and he took pitty on me..
>>>
>>> Is it on on the FreeBSD website to use the perl "CGI" module? It's
>>> what I used and he says that it is the way to go.  Who do we ask? or
>>> do you want to put it somewhere else?
>>
>> Hosting it at www.freebsd.org is the right thing to do.  I'd probably
>> want it linked off of www/en/news/status for consistency.

I think we can make this work like `query-pr-summary.cgi' and stuff it
under www/en/cgi as `status-report.cgi'.  Then the www/en/news/status
pages would include a simple link in their stardard footer, as generated
by report.xsl, and we're done :-)

> Ok so I don't seem to be able to check out from www let alone check
> in..

Make sure you are checking out of the right repository (i.e. your
CVSROOT is set correctly):

	% setenv CVSROOT ':ext:julian at dcvs.freebsd.org:/home/dcvs'

That should work much like /home/ncvs does for src/ stuff.

> who should I contact to get a prototype in for testing in the FreeBSD
> environment?

freebsd-www is the right place :-)

> http://www.elischer.org/organization/submit.htm
> is the "working example" we'd be starting with.

If nobody else beats me to it, I'll try to post something when I get to
work tomorrow morning (Wed 19/01/2004).  It's too late for real work(TM)
here; writing Perl would very likely have disastrous results :-)

- Giorgos