This is the Gentopia hosting metabug so to speak. I promise to flesh it out and answer any and all questions here. The basic request is that we get some SVN space as well as trac connected to SVN. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
At the point where I'm willing to send infra a box to get this setup. I'd write a GLEP up at that point. Because then I'd suggest "projects.gentoo.org" which could host all non-Portage tree projects and provide them with a nice Trac+SVN interface. Gentopia could go on there. Ecelctic (I can never spell it) could go on there. Keychain could go on there. Even baselayout if they wanted and whatever other projects that are geared for Gentoo. I'd be willing to handle all the admining of that box and configuration. Wouldn't increase any of your workload. Obviously you guys would have all the access in the world on it because you'd want to triple check security, which I totally understand. But I'd be willing to handle the rest.
Well, the major hurdle we'd have to solve is making this work without putting this on lark. Did you have ideas on that? Also, some of our devs (particularly solar) is hesitant on using any sort of webdav app for security issues. He'd need to comment on the specifics behind that, but I generally trust his judgement on things like that. Is this just going to be a read-only type setup? Otherwise we could make it work similar to the nodes. Also, wouldn't part of this be duplicated if we include svn on our viewcvs eventually? I guess I'm a little confused what this project is about and the goals behind it. Can you please be a little more detailed?
AFAIK, trac is just svn+wiki+bugs.. We have svn, we have a developer wiki (purposely no public wiki because the docs team does a good enough job as it is with our web docs), and we have bugs. The next step would be to propose to the managers that this become an official Gentoo project. -C
Details about what Gentopia is... It's long... I'll copy and paste it here if you really want. http://www.cardoe.com/archives/2005/08/13/what-is-gentopia/
The official request to bring this up to the managers but really the council, once they're elected. Grant you're really the only one I know to bring this to so I'm CCing you.
to be clear, what corey is saying in his comment is that we already provide the services that you're requesting, so this bug is simply to create an SVN repository without trac support. If you're asking for a separate issue tracking system as well as a separate wiki system, just for this project, then I'm not sure that's something we're willing to provide or support.
Kurt is right on.. I talked with Doug on IRC the other day and explained this to him. Personally I'm excited at the prospect of Project Gentopia. However, before we can give it space on the official infrastructure, a couple of things have to be done: 1 - Managers need to agree to adopt it as an official project (which, with the new tribal council or whatever, probably needs to go to them) 2 - Whoever has been involved thus far, if it is heavy code-wise, will need to be willing to sign joint-copyright with the Foundation on the code. This will come in the near future, but since this project will likely be adopted before then I'm throwing it out as an FYI. Cheers, -C
(In reply to comment #7) > 1 - Managers need to agree to adopt it as an official project (which, with the > new tribal council or whatever, probably needs to go to them) Actually, this one isn't correct, since part of the new metastructure is that devs can create new projects at will. I'm sure that we're eventually going to need a way to thin out the dead ones eventually, but for now creating the project makes it as "official" as any other (albeit not necessarily supported). As for providing more than a project page, though, that's up to the infra folks.
Given Grant's corrections.. Doug, do you still want an svn repo? -C
Doug is taking a leave for a while and I haven't heard anything since my last ping, so I am going to close this bug for now. Feel free to reopen later.
