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

["Wong TM (Huang Deming)" <lookmeow@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, now I am more curious :)

Seeing that Freeciv is first release on jan  5 - 1996. It's been four
years since then. I wonder is there any interesting story/history and
philosophy to tell. Especially about the Original authors, otherwise
known as the Great Danes? Seeing that Freeciv will continue well into the
far future, someone should write some history about Freeciv.

  -Deming

> -----Original Message-----
> From: freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:freeciv-dev-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Mallatt
>
>
> 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