static page freeze, CVS module changes

[Thomas Chung]

On 5/27/07, Karsten Wade <kwade at redhat.com> wrote:
> Freeze on all changes in web/static.  Once the Infrastructure team gives
> us the "all clear", we'll work on web/static/FC-6 until Fedora 7 launch,
> then work on web/static/F-7.
>
> Right now I'm going ahead with creating the by-version directories.  I
> will *not* tag any of it LIVE, to be safe.  In addition, I'm going to do
> this in a two-phase pass, so we maintain the current practice until
> Infrastructure does a cut-over.
>
> 1. Create web/static/FC-6 and web/static/F-7
> 2. Copy the contents of web/static into web/static/F*
> 3. Check that all in to CVS
> 4. Begin modifying the F-7 version for the launch-day page change
> 5. Meanwhile, Infrastructure team modifies the page draw so that
> fp.o/index.html is pulled from content marked LIVE in web/static/FC-6
> 6. When that process is confirmed, we delete the files from web/static
> to clear out the garbage
> 7. On the day Fedora 7 goes live, we change the cronjob to pull content
> marked LIVE from the web/static/F-7 directory to put on fp.o/
>
> This is just a basic CVS rename operation, with a pause in the middle.
>
> Probably pretty late for anyone out there to make objections to night,
> unless you are a night owl like me.  Anyway, forge ahead, fix tomorrow
> what I break tonight, etc.
>
> I'll send word when I've made the changes.

Sounds likes a very good plan. :)
Thanks Karsten.
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Thomas Chung
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