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The patch for directory +</I>><i> limitation seems to have applied and lost on the viewvc we used ( one +</I>><i> more reason to use rpm of the distribution and to push patch upstream ) +</I> +I think that here the main pb is that not a lot of that kind of tools +are used on big repos, so we may have +"surprises" when used. + +><i> - must not be a ressources hog ( as it will likely be indexed sooner +</I>><i> or later by Google or a search engine, even if we can suppose +</I>><i> that robots.txt will be used to prevent that ). This also exclude +</I>><i> all setup based on basic CGI, for well know performance reasons. +</I> +how to know this ? is there some benchmark like tests ? + +><i> - must be maintained, packaged, without a history full of security hole +</I>><i> that would make Berlin wall look rock solid in comparaison. +</I> +makes sense + +><i> - do we plan to host git repository ? It seems so ( we did at mandriva, +</I>><i> and I think a growing number of contributers will want it ). Others +</I>><i> SCMs ? I do not know, but we should ask. ( but I never seen people asking +</I>><i> for bzr and hg hosting, maybe nanar for darcs ). We can also say this is +</I>><i> not the goal of this tool, as we did fr mdv. +</I> +for git this is an other story i think, that we will discuss on an +other story and btw having a git repo is i think a must have. + +><i> - must be easy to theme +</I>><i> - should be without recompiling the whole rpm +</I>><i> - should not need to copy the css ( ie, take a distant one, as this +</I>><i> will ease the job of the webteam and help on perfs ) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - should support ACLs. While we do not need for the moment, but +</I>><i> this may be a need that will arise for the secteam or for keeping password +</I>><i> ( see my previous mail about it for extlookup, puppet and so one ). +</I> +i was just speaking of a websvn like, just a tool to "see" the svn not +to modify it. + +><i> If we decide we need ACLs, we need to find how to plug them to ldap. +</I>><i> A simple apache module could do the trick, depend on the url used. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - should support non text content ( to display imagess ) +</I>><i> for website for example. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - must handle diff ( for text ) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> - should support syntax highligthing +</I>><i> +</I>><i> And finally, maybe ask directly to the people who will use if +</I>><i> they have some needs not fullfilled by the current tools ( without +</I>><i> getting out of the scope of the use case "look at svn using the web" ) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> For example, a link to the bugtracker when we see #foo123 in commit message +</I>><i> would be nice. Some people also would like to see a nice ajax interface, +</I>><i> and some would like to have it working without it. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> And for tools proposal we can either use +</I>><i> websvn, viewvc, or try to use redmine/trac and hide everything +</I>><i> ( and I think we should rather avoid this solution ). +</I>><i> Some people on stackoverlow.com seems to say that usvn could be +</I>><i> used too ( even if it does much more than what we think ). +</I>><i> +</I>><i> There is also some other non free solution, like fisheye, but I would +</I>><i> not recommend for obvious reasons. +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Michael Scherer +</I>><i> _______________________________________________ +</I>><i> Mageia-sysadm mailing list +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">Mageia-sysadm at mageia.org</A> +</I>><i> <A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm</A> +</I>><i> +</I></PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="000414.html">[Mageia-sysadm] install of a websvn on svn server ? +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="000405.html">[Mageia-sysadm] [212] Close more anon access, and open up read access to some inetOrgPerson attrs to users +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#415">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#415">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#415">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#415">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-sysadm">More information about the Mageia-sysadm +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |