[Biopython-dev] Moving from CVS to git

[Peter]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Bartek
Wilczynski<bartek at rezolwenta.eu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Peter<biopython at maubp.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Bartek - do you think we need git on any of the other OBF machines
>> in addition to dev.open-bio.org (current IP 207.154.17.71)?
>
> What we _need_ is a single machine, where we can run scripts from cron
> and where git is installed. That's why I requested the installation on
> dev.open-bio machine (it happens to be the only one I have an account
> on). The idea is to run something from cron and pull from github to
> have a backup copy of an up-to-date branch. The scripts can (after
> each update) push to other machines.
>
> ...
>
> There is no need for git on the www-server machine if we only want to
> publish the code, or a read-only git branch over http for download. I
> think it's easier to have a single place where cron jobs are run.

So just push a dump of the latest code to http://biopython.org/SRC/biopython
or push fresh epydoc api docs to http://biopython.org/DIST/docs/api-live/
or whatever from dev.open-bio.org. That sounds fine to me.

> There is one remaining issue: We would need to have some directory
> where the branch would be kept. Currently it sits in my home directory
> which probably should be changed to something like
> /home/biopython/git_branch. I am in biopython group, but currently
> /home/biopython does not even allow me to see /home/biopython, not to
> mention writing into it. I think it would be the best to set the
> scripts to run as biopython user.

Yes - we'll need some OBF admin input there...

Peter