A GNU Binutils wiki

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Mark,

>> Would you feel happier if the text for the wiki was kept in the sources
>> and then uploaded to the site on a semi-regular basis ? 

> How are the current code snapshots created? 

I think that there is a cron job on sourceware that creates the snapshots.

> How is the documentation uploaded at release time?

By hand. :-)

I have a procedure outlined in the binutils/README-how-to-make-a-release
document that I follow whenever I need to update the documentation.


> We can automate both and publish them on a special buildbot worker
> under something like snapshots.sourceware.org/bintuils to keep them
> current and so everybody can immediately see how the documentation
> looks.

That would be nice.  Would it involve taking up a lot of disk space ?
(Ie for how long would these snapshots last ?)

Cheers
   Nick