Re: Let's stop using CVS for debian.org website

* Mathieu Parent <[email protected]> [2016-11-23 20:13:01 CET]:
> 2016-11-23 19:48 GMT+01:00 Andreas Tille <[email protected]>:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hello,
> 
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 03:52:47PM +0000, Neil McGovern wrote:
> [...]
> > I can ensure that ~260MiB is quite much for my Vietnamese friend Minh
> > who just started with the translations.  She is doing this on an old
> > netbook I have given her and her connection is weak as well.  It would
> > be really good if partial checkouts would be possible.
> 
> git clone has "--depth" flag. Setting it to 1 will reduce the
> bandwidth and used  space.

 Not by enough that it would make a proper difference.  And AIUI commits
from such checkouts can't be done (maybe that changed since I
investigated shallow clones last time).

 I would rather see a possibility to request and submit single files
through other means than needing a git checkout at all, through some
github like edit/patch possibility (which was one of the reasons brought
forward for the switch anyway).  Anything else I don't see to really
work out.

 And yes, I totally agree with that the whole repository burden is an
obstacle for translators that we need to think about.  If we can offer
something like a webbased edit possibility (definitely
authenticated/authorized unlike what DDTSS offers which is a real PITA,
we need that information for the --author anyway) that could be very
useful.

 So long,
Rhonda