Re: Octave Forge down (content removed)

[Carnë Draug]

On 24 July 2014 22:14, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07/24/2014 03:42 PM, Carnë Draug wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have, accidentally, removed the web space of Octave Forge. The
>> package tarballs and repositories are still available for download,
>> the only thing that disappeared was the online documentation. Since
>> pkg works by parsing the html of each package documentation, that
>> won't work either. I am trying to restore it but am dubious that this
>> will be complete today. I will send a separate mail to the help
>> mailing list with how to live without the Octave Forge website.
>>
>> Carnë
>
> Is there a Mercurial repository for the web space files (e.g., stored
> wherever the O.F. files are stored)?  Such a thing might make restoring the
> interface a little easier if lost.  Or is it more work than benefit?

Most of the content is automatically generated with the generate_html
package. The doxygen docs for liboctave, should probably go into
octave.org and I have already spoke with Jordi about it. The other
documentation, how to create Octave package and become an Octave Forge
were too much out of date anyway.

The main thing that got lost were some php scripts. There was only one
minor change to them since I became a maintainer and I thought they
were in "doc/htdocs" of the svn repo. I was wrong, they have never
been there. But Carlo seems to have a copy of them so it should be
fine.

On 25 July 2014 05:47, c. <address@hidden> wrote:
> [...]
> I used to periodically make manual backups of OF webspace before
> you took over maintainance, but the most recent I have is dated
> June 2012. There have not been too many changes since then, should
> I put those files on while you work on restoring a more recent version?

Please keep them for a little more but don't put them up yet. I have
contacted SourceForge to see if it is possible to restore from their
backups. If they do restore it, I don't want to make things harder for
them by already having an half restored website. Thank you

Carnë