Re: [LAU] A virtual LAU chillout band

On 2007-11-14 19:49, Mark Constable wrote: It might be useful to post a simple howto here... * anyone can anonymously "checkout" the latest project(s) cd /some/where svn co http://markconstable.com/jam # then for future updates it's a simple cd /some/where svn up # or, for less data transfer (no hidden .svn dirs) but # then "svn up" does not work, but is good for tar/zipping svn export http://markconstable.com/jam * anyone who sends me an email address and password can have commit (upload) privileges, email markc(a)renta.net cd /some/where svn co http://your%40email.address:your_password@markconstable.com/jam cd /some/where mkdir myproject cp -a /current/audio/files/* myproject svn add myproject # recursively adds everything in folder svn commit # brings up editor for commit notes svn update # updates local view of central repo * for now, anything goes, just upload stuff and see what happens, it will become obvious what does, or not, work * anyone can zip/tarball/torrent any checked out project and host it anywhere else they care to * I will endeavour to put together a forum asap so that commit log/diffs can go into their own topic and thus have an RSS feed (most important way to stay uptodate) * I am enthused about collab possibilities based on SVN (or any SCM system) and recently set up a site to host custom Archlinux packages at... http://code.google.com/p/proaudio/ but there is 100Mb limit which is no where near enough space for audio. The intergrated wiki and google groups makes the above an easy no-brainer for collaboration * If Git was the SCM backend then everyone involved would have a "master copy" ... Git is truly distributed but, for now, SVN is readily available with plenty of support * the only requirement is that all material uploaded must be under either GPL or a very liberal OSS license Re licensing, I can suggest this as a potential license... YOUR_PROJECT - a brief description of your project. Copyright (C) 2007 YOUR_ID_EMAIL This project is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. This project is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. As a special exception, if you create a composition which uses parts or all of this project, and mix this project or unaltered portions of this project into a composition, then reuse of this project does not by itself cause the resulting composition to be covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not however invalidate any other reasons why the document might be covered by the GNU General Public License. If you modify this project, you may extend this exception to your version of this project, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. --markc