[Aptitude-devel] Fully automatic aptitude documentation extractor for http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> > The script's instance is installed on Alioth in
> > /srv/home/groups/aptitude/bin/, uses /srv/home/groups/aptitude/tmp/ as
> > download area and extracts the docs to
> > /srv/home/groups/aptitude/htdocs/doc/ aka
> > http://aptitude.alioth.debian.org/doc/
[...]
> > I wonder if I should install a cron-job on Alioth running that script.
> > And if so, how often? Daily? Weekly?
> 
> Is it practical to use a git hook, say when a new release tag is added?

Hrm. I don't think so, because the release tag may be (and probably
most time is) done directly after the upload or at latest when the
ACCEPTED mail has arrived and not when it has been populated on all
mirrors, which can be up to 8 hours later in the common cases.

		Regards, Axel
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