[arch-dev-public] The move to SVN

[Travis Willard]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Jason Chu <jason at archlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 12:54:44PM -0400, Travis Willard wrote:
>  > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM, eliott <eliott at cactuswax.net> wrote:
>  > > On 4/3/08, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >  > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > >  >  >  So, what do I need from you? Nothing. I'm making this easy in that I
>  > >  >  >  will do all the work. I just need one thing: give me a day when it is
>  > >  >  >  best. When you all want to take a mini-vacation and do no packaging at
>  > >  >  >  all. If no one has a good day for this, I will probably do it on
>  > >  >  >  Thursday or Friday.
>  > >  >
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Ok, so. I need to fly out for a business trip tonight (anyone in Vegas
>  > >  >  today and tomorrow?). I was hoping to actually do this today, but that
>  > >  >  fell through. I will be back on Saturday, so I plan on doing this
>  > >  >  then, starting about 10am CST on Saturday.
>  > >  >
>  > >  >  One request:
>  > >  >  Could you guys take a peek at the web-based viewers out there and let
>  > >  >  me know what you'd prefer?
>  > >  >  Items of interest:
>  > >  >  http://www.bluestatic.org/software/viewsvn/
>  > >  >  http://www.viewvc.org/
>  > >  >  http://websvn.tigris.org/
>  > >  >  http://trac.edgewall.org/
>  > >
>  > >  I don't think trac would be a good fit, as it does wiki and bugtracking too.
>  >
>  > I really haven't ever used anything other than ViewVC so I don't have
>  > a good basis for comparison.
>  >
>  > However, this brings up an interesting (if somewhat offtopic, sorry)
>  > point - if we used Trac, could we integrate our package bugtracking
>  > directly with our repo, so that the issue could associate itself with
>  > the package in SVN?  Would that even be useful?  There was talk about
>  > how flyspray sucked recently, IIRC, so this could be an integrated
>  > replacement.
>
>  In general I'm not happy with Trac's wiki and bug tracker.  Trac took all
>  the simplest stuff and put it together so none of it is really good, it's
>  just combined.

Fair enough - glad to hear from someone with experience in the matter.
 I was just throwing it out there as a possibility. :)