Re: Putting Splinter on bugzilla.gnome.org

On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 12:26:52PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> It hasn't really made updating Splinter any more like updating the rest
> of Bugzilla - it's just moved the 'make install' procedure that has to
> be documented from the server to the developer's machine.

I prefer the complexity to be on the developers machine.

> I'd be happier, especially while Splinter is still under active
> development, if the install procedures for the bugzilla code and for
> Splinter were orthogonal and separate:

Yeah, while you're developing it, then it makes sense to have it
separate. I just wont touch it :-)

btw: you said somewhere the look is similar. You just immediately
include the header and footer templates I hope? Frederic had an
extension to change these into something more GNOMEy like.

>  - To update bugzilla, follow the instructions you listed above
> 
>  - To update Splinter:
> 
>     cd /usr/local/www/splinter
>     git pull
>     make install
>     sudo service httpd restart

I still always use git pull --rebase, even if there shouldn't be any
changes on the server.

-- 
Regards,
Olav