How does the main page get updated?
Christopher Brooks, 18 Oct 2004
Last updated: 18 Oct 2004

The best way to update the main page is to send email to the website administrators. The main page can be updated by key personnel who are administrators of the workgroup that corresponds to the site.
To become an administrator for the workgroup, send email to: www@embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu. If you are a member of the administrator workgroup, then there will be a 'CVS update' link at the bottom of the page that will update the page and a 'Help' link that discusses how to check out the website.

Once you have been granted administrative privileges in the chess workgroup, you can check out your own working copy of the chess site by doing:

cvs -d :ext:gigasource.eecs.berkeley.edu:/home/cvs_embedded co embeddedwww

Note that currently the top and bottom of the main page is split in to two files (embeddedwww/index_top.htm and embeddedwww/index_bottom.htm). These two files are read in by php/embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/index.php, which is in the php repository. To update this file, you must know the www user password on gigascale.
Having two files control the main page is likely to change.

For additional information about using CVS, see:

How do I edit pages in a group with the "CVS Authoring" option?