Re: GForge instance for GNOME? (Was: Creating SVN repositories)

["Kevin Kubasik" <kevin kubasik net>]

Or if its administrative/overhead worries,everyone already has
key-based ssh accounts, it would take almost nothing to set up
something like gitweb (like at git.freedesktop.org to some extent) or
the like. Who says we need a full blown sourceforge like system? Lots
of those exist, I feel like the biggest advantage to a low-entry
repository is that we keep people's innovative efforts focused on
Gnome.

I say with that labs would be a unique opportunity to keep pet
projects in the open, things like Macslow's lowfat etc. that were edgy
and innovative, and if they had gotten even 1 or 2 newer dev's
intersted, might have grown into something more viable. These projects
are not on the level where they need a full
bugtracking+mailinglist+webpage+releasetracking+scm in one, they need
a place to dump code, and maybe a few wiki pages, with the most
popular projects jotting down known bugs on the wiki or something
until the project was actaully ready for prime time.

I think this forced departure is actually an advantage, it keeps labs
what it should be, a place to brainstorm, any play, if you have an
active project there, it should be inconvenant and not like a full
Gnome module, thus forcing people try to stay with labs when they are
really ready for a bigger role move on. Sure they might lose 10 or
even 25 revisions of history,(which can be pushed to svn by git, hg,
or bzr ).

I dunno, just been following this conversation trying to think what I
would use it for, so my $0.02, feel free to shoot it down.

Cheers,
Kevin Kubasik

On 4/24/07, Dan Winship <danw gnome org> wrote:
> Loïc Minier wrote:
> >  Your needs and problems both remind me of alioth.debian.org: the GForge
> >  instance for Debian-related projects.  Alioth is the best thing which
> >  happened to Debian in the last years: it's trivial for anybody to
> >  create an Alioth account, request an Alioth project, request a git /
> >  CVS / SVN / mercurial / bzr repository for a group, to setup
> >  mailing-lists, to moderate these, to publish tarballs and some web
> >  pages!
> >  ...
> >  I suppose it's quite some work for the Alioth admin though.
>
> The upside for the GNOME sysadmin team if we did something like this
> would be that it would give them an environment where they could test
> out svn/bugzilla/mailman/whatever upgrades before rolling them out to
> the production servers. When it's time to do an upgrade it, test it out
> on "gnome-alioth" first. If something goes wrong with the upgrade on
> that server, the "real" GNOME infrastructure would be unaffected. And
> then once the new services are working flawlessly on "gnome-alioth", the
> admins can be more confident about rolling the upgrade out to the
> production svn/bugzilla/etc servers.
>
> -- Dan
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