I think we're resistant to "outsourcing" SVN and bug tracking for a lot of the same reasons we originally moved from Google Code. There are tons of great SVN hosts available for free and pay if we did decide to go that direction.
Personally, I would very much like to continue hosting these things ourselves if we can make that work. Whether that's adopting different tools (like Indefero instead of Trac) or getting a bigger slice doesn't much matter. Hosting it ourselves allows us to do things like write a post-commit hook to auto-build the /dist .zip packages as things change in -extras. I know Owen has approached a friend that works for the hosting company he uses at work about the potential of hosting. That may or may not pan out. Media Temple also provides a lot of hosting to popular bloggers and the like for free, as long as you pimp their service in your sidebar or something. I'm not sure we'd want (mt)'s (dv) product (it comes with Plesk and is CentOS that is usually further behind in package versions than we'd probably like), and I don't know if I could sleep at night if we did, but that could be another possibility. I don't know of any other hosts off hand that have any type of reputation for providing free VPS / dedicated hosting to open source projects (or reputation for providing quality service at all). On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Christian Mohn (h0bbel) <[email protected]>wrote: > > Wrt, Hosting, are we too small (still) to try and get someone to sponsor > us? > Is SourceForge completely out of the question? SF does provide hosted Trac > now... > > Christian > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Owen Winkler > Sent: 23. april 2009 18:42 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [habari-dev] Re: The ASF question, again. > > > Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: > > > > There's nothing stopping them from contributing provided they have > > signed a CLA. We are never going to get the legal protection that > > requires this unless we do this, which sucks (actually, you can in a > > few countries, like Scotland, which have legally binding verbal > > contracts, but they are few and far between). > > I'm not saying that we shouldn't have some protection; maybe we should > have all contributors sign SLAs. That's not really the issue though. > > The issue is that in the infrastructure that the ASF provides there is > no technical distinction in commit permissions between contributor > earning merit and PMC member who has been voted in because they've > earned the position. Any committer could alter core code. That's a > clear departure from what we do now. > > Owen > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
