28 Nov
2012
28 Nov
'12
9:16 a.m.
On Nov 28, 2012, at 1:07 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.org> wrote:
On 11/27/2012 04:28 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Yes PURLs could be a good solution for specific important pages like the one you mention
but they are adhoc and I don't believe those are required for temporary resources such
as Release notes.
Or you really need to make it transparent so that it doesn't cost more when doing
releases. I spent 15 minutes trying to create a PURL when I did the release 2 days ago and
in the end I didn't do it since it was too complex and I couldn't understand how
to do it.
[snip]
Thanks
-Vincent
Hi Sergiu,
On Nov 27, 2012, at 10:01 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.org> wrote:
Again, this is not about tweeter. PURLs aren't about length, they're
about finding something in a reliable place, and involve maintenance
work. There should be no broken PURL. I created a few other PURLs a long
time ago, like purl.org/xwiki/repo/, purl.org/xwiki/ml/ and
purl.org/xwiki/ml/archive, purl.org/xwiki/ci/ (which used to point to
hudson). On 11/27/2012 09:18 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
You don't need PURL for that…. As i mentioned the tweet clients already shorten URLs…
Check my tweet, you'll see it's not 71 chars long:
https://twitter.com/xwikiorg/status/273180659521028096 (I didn't do anything specific
to shorten the URL). Hi devs,
Here are some notes I took while releasing XWiki 4.3 on how to improve the release
process:
* We need to automate the generation of the CLIRR report. This is what takes the longest
when releasing (not overall time but manual time required). IMO this can be done
relatively easily by creating a patch for the CLIRR maven plugin itself to:
** Add support for wildcards in the new <difference> syntax
** Ensure that their report generation takes into account the <justification>
element
** Possibly add a text report generation that we'll be able to copy paste in our RN
+1.
* Remove PURL generation for Tweets
** Tweets are ephemeral so no need to have permanent URLs
** Tweet clients already do URL shortening
(It's complex to use the PURL UI too)
-1. The PURL is not just about twits, it's about having some permanent
links to our release notes. I really don't like that our URLs are so
damn long
(http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotesXWiki44RC1
is 71 chars long), so I like to have something shorter.