[Consortium] supporting developers

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've recv. > 5 independent remarks that linuxaudio.org should provide services for developers - similar to sourceforge.net! (again no April fools' here) There are already some efforts (eg. download.linuxaudio.org) but none of which is end-developer friendly :) - we figured that providing end-user resources is easier to implement and linuxaudio.org lacks manpower.. - but I dare say we'll get there at last. unless *YOU* volunteer, we won't re-implement sf.net on linuxaudio.org - but we will aim towards some devel-CMS! Here are a few ideas: * web-space (1) * bug-tracking system (2) * code repository (3) - no [per-project] forum (6) - no file-release repo (5) - no [automatic] per-project mailing lists (4) (1) we can use one of the currently avail. platforms wiki (dokuwiki) or CMS (drupal) AND/OR allow to rsync custom project-web-space (static html only). - for custom solutions we don't see a problem to add vhosts&accounts (plus database,cgi), but this won't be an open-registration platform. (1a) we are also working on re-organizing the vhost names and namespaces merging old content into new CMS.. stay tuned. any content with a dubious license is currently being moved to http://outlaw.linuxaudio.org (2) bugzilla ? mantis ? trac ?- any volunteers, experts? (3) subversion seems to be the common denominator! we can provide import/export (from darcs,cvs,git,..) scripts. and/or have each project choose it's flavor! - our current server runs osX and older versions of RC-software, we'll get a linux-box for this around July and revisit this issue. I'll volunteer to do the git & gitweb setup.. darcs,svn&cvs are still open.. (4) once we've consolidated the server backend - you can request new mailing-lists to be hosted at linuxaudio.org! (5) frankly: the sf.net file-release system sucks! and so do most www-interactive file-browsers. - there are many possible solutions, all with a twist in the details: no spam, little admin-overhead (accounts), accessible from any OS,... - my current favorite is to have an incoming/ folder (alike sf.net) and a small custom web-CGI that allows project-admins to *rsync* a subtree of incoming/ to their download.linuxaudio.org web-space! - (we can allow to write to incoming/ via ftp,webdav,rsync,.. ) (6) once there are Forums on linuxaudio.org we can revisit the per-project forum idea... ;) - drupal should already be able to do it! -=-=-=-=- There are a few general issues (eg. shared accounts/passwords, HTTPS/SSL certs, proxy/cache ) to be addressed, before we start new web-project. ..just takes some time.. However I'm pleased to announce that we've now got a stable&clean web- and mail-server setup (including backups, log-analysis -rotation,.. etc.) - and started fine-tuning both performance and security issues; look&feel will improve further down the road. robin, for the linuxaudio.org team