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

["martin.mcmahon" <martin.mcmahon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Wong

On 18-Sep-00, Wong TM (Huang Deming) wrote:
> 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
> 
This should be done before everyone forgets.:)


>> -----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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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