R: Moving svnbook repository [and tracker [and wiki [and discussion]]] to Google Code
Brian W. Fitzpatrick
fitz at red-bean.com
Thu Sep 25 08:18:42 CDT 2008
You are mistaken. You just need a Google account, which you can associate
with any email address.
-Fitz
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:14 PM, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com>wrote:
> An email with instructions is pretty much a given. What is *not* is the
> Google account creation. Unless I'm mistaken, Google code requires
> committers to have a Google (@gmail.com) account. So every committer
> would
> need to create such an account and request membership in the new project.
> I'm pretty sure that the project admins can't do that for you. (Well,
> maybe
> they can invite folks to the project, but they certainly can't setup the
> actual Google account.)
>
>
> Matteo Tontini wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I don't see any problem in the migration. It could be worth to have an
> > email forwarded to
> > these old mailing lists to have exact instructions about how to checkout
> > our new working copy (e.g. will our account be cloned to the new google
> > code project?).
> > Thank you for the information.
> >
> > Matteo Tontini
> >
> >
> > --- *Mer 24/9/08, C. Michael Pilato /<cmpilato at red-bean.com>/* ha
> scritto:
> >
> > Da: C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com>
> > Oggetto: Moving svnbook repository [and tracker [and wiki [and
> > discussion]]] to Google Code
> > A: "SVNBook Developers" <svnbook-dev at red-bean.com>
> > Cc: l10n-ru at subversion.tigris.org, svn-pt_br at red-bean.com,
> > l10n-es at subversion.tigris.org, "Svn-It-mail List" <
> svn-it at red-bean.com>
> > Data: Mercoledì 24 settembre 2008, 19:10
> >
> > A few weeks ago, Fitz proposed relocating the svnbook source code
> repository
> > to Google Code. I don't recall any dissent. But then, I don't
> recall
> > any
> > assent, either. :-P
> >
> > Here's the situation. Today at red-bean.com we have all the tools
> we need
> > to run this open source project. We've got the repository, an issue
> > tracker
> > (Trac), wikis (Trac, MoinMoin), a mailing list (Mailman), etc.
> Sadly,
> > though, the tracker and primary wiki are effectively closed to
> > non-committers (you can't edit without an account, and you can't get
> an
> > account without manual administrator intervention). And
> committership is
> > still managed by hand edits to htpasswd files and such. Finally,
> > red-bean.com itself has had some reliability issues over the past
> few months
> > that -- while seemingly resolved at the moment -- could crop up
> > again
> > unexpectedly.
> >
> > It's this last point that (I believe) is Fitz's primary concern.
> > It's the
> > previous ones -- specifically the inaccessibility of the issue
> tracker and
> > wiki -- that are mine. A migration to Google Code of the repository,
> issue
> > tracking, wiki, etc. is believed to be a solution to all those
> problems.
> > Fitz originally indicated that if he didn't hear dissent, he'd
> > undertake
> > this migration, so technically your chance to speak up has come and
> gone.
> > But Fitz is short on time, so he's handed off to me on this. And as
> this
> > will affect not just the book authors but all the translation teams
> as well,
> > I wanted to make doubly sure that folks were in favor of (or at least
> > indifferent to) this change.
> >
> > NOTE: My primary concerns are probably addressable in other ways. I
> have
> > to believe that Trac has a better authn/authz subsystem (perhaps in a
> > third-party module) now than it did in the version
> > we originally deployed.
> > Of course, that won't alleviate Fitz's primary concerns.
> >
> > Also, as a secondary matter, there's the question of the mailing
> list. Do
> > we continue to use svnbook-dev at red-bean.com, or should we move
> discussion to
> > svnbook-dev at googlegroups.com (which the former forwarding mail to
> the
> > latter)? I really like the web accessibility of Google Groups,
> especially
> > since I'm not a mail hoarder. Finally, I'm betting that we'd get
> > better
> > spam protection from Google Groups than we have now (which is easy,
> since we
> > have none). But do others have a preference?
> >
> > One final word: I personally hope that a move to Google Code -- and
> the
> > easier administration that allows -- will encourage some of the
> translation
> > teams who are working elsewhere to consider re-centering their
> efforts in
> > the same place that the English work is done. There's no reason why
> one
> > issue tracker or Wiki can't carry the artifacts
> > for all the translations.
> > Additionally, there've been some constructive criticisms leveraged
> lately
> > about the repository layout and general processes being
> disproportionately
> > English-version-centric -- let's iron those issues out, okay?
> >
> > --
> > C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato at red-bean.com> |
> http://cmpilato.blogspot.com/
> >
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