[GRASS-dev] Re: CVS date&time on manuals page?

[Markus Neteler]

Maciej Sieczka wrote on 11/13/2006 08:58 PM:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>   
>> it's not entirely clear to me what you mean. Each manual
>> page (except for the index pages) contains the CVS timestamp.
>> Please explain it slowly :-)
>>     
>
> Markus,
>
> Even I can hardly understand that writing of mine ;).
>
> I mean the main docs page, at http://grass.itc.it/gdp/manuals.php.
> Could *this* site have the CVS timestamp on it as well?
>
> Such a timestamp will let the GRASS GForge user verify if the issue he
> is about to report is still actuall, in the most recent doc version he
> can access.
>   

Maciek,

sure, why not. Every developer can modify the Web pages:

http://grass.itc.it/devel/cvs.php#web
*Web site CVS management* (developers only)
Developers have access to maintain the GRASS web pages:

    Set the CVSROOT variable (with your CVS ID) 
    cvs -z3 co web

Markus


>   
>>  On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 06:15:33PM +0100, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
>>     
>
>   
>>> While setting up the tracker for doc bugs, I've come to an idea that it
>>> would be usefull to have the CVS checkout's date and time displayed on
>>> the http://grass.itc.it/gdp/manuals.php. So the user (who is not using
>>> CVS) reporting a manual bug, can know if his issue is still actuall and
>>> what CVS checkout he is reffering to, and supply this CVS date and time
>>> in the bug report (see
>>> http://wald.intevation.org/tracker/?func=add&group_id=21&atid=184).
>>>