On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Tracy Poff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Since code hosting now supports Mercurial with multiple repositories, > I'd like to know whether a particular use case is acceptable: > > I (like many others, I suppose) have a lot of small, personal > repositories locally containing various tiny programs I've made for > some purpose, as well as the initial stages of what might turn out to > be larger projects. It's not reasonable to create a new project on > code hosting for what may never be more than a tiny library with a > very restricted audience, especially if I have dozens of such > libraries, but it would be nice to have a place to put such things and > make them available. A fairly good solution would be to use a single > project on code hosting for all of these, and just create multiple > repositories for each subproject, but this doesn't seem to be quite > the intended purpose of the service. So, granted that all these bits > of code are open source (and, for the sake of argument, all provided > under the same license): > > 1. Is it acceptable to make a project full of unrelated things, in this > fashion? > > Yes. You're correct to point out that all the content in a project must be open source and properly licensed under the project's chosen license. > 2. If so, is there any upper limit on how many repositories a project > can have? Based on what I imagine to be the expected use of these, I'd > guess the limit is fairly generous, if it exists, but I'd still like > to know. > There is a limit - I believe it starts at ten project repositories. If you hit the limit and need additional repositories for additional sub-projects, just contact us here and ask us to raise it for your project. Either way, I'd like to suggest that this use case be considered--if > it were possible to create repositories associated with a user, but > not a project, this would probably be ideal; a simple server-side > method for converting 'personal' repositories to full projects should > they develop into something more substantial would be nice, though > hardly necessary, since all that's required is to push to the > newly-created project. > > It is a perfectly fine use case to use a project for your personal open-source software development. A number of the projects hosted with us are small projects being authored by three developers, two developers, and even one developer. > Thanks in advance. > You're welcome! -Nathaniel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
