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Subversion server and network upgrade

The subversion, bugzilla and package repository server may be temporarily offline during the coming week. The server is being upgraded with a 3Ware harwdare RAID card and two 500 Gb SATA disks. I am also rewiring my entire network with cat-6 cable and will install a gigabit ethernet switch.

All other services will remain unaffected.

Mailinglist server power failure

Update: The server is back online

The server that holds our mailing lists will be down intermittently for the next couple of days due to a power failure. We hope to resolve this as soon as possible. In the mean time, if you have questions about gnome hearts, please use the contact form to ask us directly.

The other servers, such as subversion, are unaffected.

Automatically generate PHP documentation from Subversion with phpDocumentor

by Sander Marechal

The longer I program, the more structured my programming methods have become. Gone are the days of editing live spaghetti code directly on the server or frantic FTPing files after each tiny change. Today I not only stuff everything in Subversion just to keep track of changes, I also use it as a deployment mechanism. But I want more and I want it automated too! Currently I am busy playing with generated documentation and unit testing. Generated documentation is an all round great idea, but it has a drawback: You need to generate it all the time. So I set out to use Subversion’s post-commit hook to generate fresh documentation for my PHP projects using phpDocumentor.

I have written a little Python script that you can call from Subversion’s post commit hook. This script scans your subversion project for files that have the phpdoc property set. If any of these have changed, then it regenerates your documentation using phpDocumentor. It can also deal with files that are not kept in your Subversion repository and supports anything also supported by phpDocumentor.

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