Re: GForge instance for GNOME? (Was: Creating SVN repositories)

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

Loïc Minier wrote:
>  Your needs and problems both remind me of alioth.debian.org: the GForge
>  instance for Debian-related projects.  Alioth is the best thing which
>  happened to Debian in the last years: it's trivial for anybody to
>  create an Alioth account, request an Alioth project, request a git /
>  CVS / SVN / mercurial / bzr repository for a group, to setup
>  mailing-lists, to moderate these, to publish tarballs and some web
>  pages!
>  ...
>  I suppose it's quite some work for the Alioth admin though.

The upside for the GNOME sysadmin team if we did something like this
would be that it would give them an environment where they could test
out svn/bugzilla/mailman/whatever upgrades before rolling them out to
the production servers. When it's time to do an upgrade it, test it out
on "gnome-alioth" first. If something goes wrong with the upgrade on
that server, the "real" GNOME infrastructure would be unaffected. And
then once the new services are working flawlessly on "gnome-alioth", the
admins can be more confident about rolling the upgrade out to the
production svn/bugzilla/etc servers.

-- Dan