Comments on: A new hosting change, again, for Claws Mail

By: mones

mones — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:21:12 +0000

I’ve installed and been maintaining the trac and svn server our team uses at work, so if you need another hand count on me for helping with the transition.

By: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:54:36 +0000

Colin, I’m sorry to hear that SF was not that good after all. Still, they now have mercurial/git, which could alleviate this sort of problems maybe for good, while having their tools at hand. Having a constantly up-to-date Trac installation (SF staff) could still be a great bonus, if it turns out to be easy to have the repository in a distributed VCS working nicely—I myself am not too familiar with advanced mercurial/git distributed repos, though.

Dreamhost now offers Trac installation integrated with SVN, but still requires some reasonable amount of configuration. Even though they help a lot (which I’m very grateful), the process is tricky sometimes, and you end up investing a lot of time. I’d guess hosting with Google should be nice as long as no one bothers with the tools they offer.

Cheers

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:06:27 +0000

Ricardo: well, we moved away from Sourceforge for most of the stuff, because they’re just too damn unreliable. That may be just a bad-luck factor, but almost each time Paul Mangan prepares a release, there’s some sort of outage. So we only have the bandwidth-eating file downloads at sf.net.

By: Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez

Ricardo Nabinger Sanchez — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:59:14 +0000

How about hosting at Sourceforge? They have integrated Trac, and AFAIK, the repository should allow multiple-vcs access. Either way, they have Trac+SVN at the very least, besides being well-established as a code hosting solution.

Google code is also an option, but I’d really go with Sourceforge.

Cheers

By: Dan Lyke

Dan Lyke — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:32:23 +0000

For “some other version control software”, may I strongly suggest you investigate Git? I’ve been a Subversion user for years, and Git has made me a total believer. The learning curve is a little steep, and most people end up writing a few wrapper scripts to do the basic operations, but the ways in which it allows branches and rejoins and the conceptual simplicity once it finally clicks are awesome.

By: Michael Rasmussen

Michael Rasmussen — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:13:56 +0000

Hi Colin,

If I can be of any help for the process please let me know