[Freeciv-Dev] Re: How the Freeciv admin. work?

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/09/18 05:03 , Wong TM (Huang Deming) wrote:
>Just out of curiosity, is the admin. stuff(CVS mailing list, nightly CVS
>and diff tarball) list on the freeciv.org server run by a perl/? script
>or manually?

Support of various parts is quite distributed.  The mailing lists (using
Listar) are maintained by John Goerzen <jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>.  The main
Freeciv server is maintained by Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>.  The
Web site is the responsibility of Martin Willemoes Hansen
<mwh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>.  LXR support is done by Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>.
And others have made significant contributions.

Messages sent to freeciv-cvs are generated automatically by a small script
plugged into the CVS server, plus a couple of cron-triggered support
scripts (these scripts also maintain the changes.txt file, which logs all
CVS commits).  The nightly CVS Snapshots, the corresponding diffs and the
"Latest CVS Snapshots" Web page are all generated by a big shell script
(which also does a backup of the entire repository).  Other scripts
maintain the LXR index, update parts of the Web site and keep the
metaserver running.  The scripts are written in shell and Perl.

Everything is as automated as possible -- otherwise it would probably not
get done ;-)

jjm