Seems like there is no perfect choice here. We're trying to look at all of
this as part of open sourcing MOOSE as well. Right now I'm leaning towards
hosting our own Trac site on INL hardware for MOOSE. It is certainly
possible to host a Trac site at INL for libMesh as well. This would be
along the lines of the way PETSc and Trilinos are hosted at Argonne and SNL
respectively.
I've been looking at this stuff basically continuously for the last couple
of days. Here are a few of my thoughts.
1. I think that if you're moving away from SourceForge (and you don't want
to host at INL) you should go to GitHub. It's where all the action is
these days (even the Linux Kernel main repo is there!) and provides a TON
of collaborative opportunities.
2. For testing with GitHub there are a couple of options:
a) http://about.travis-ci.org/ This is a free CI service for open-source
projects. It integrates with GitHub and tests are run on their hardware.
Not sure how scalable it is.
b) Atlassian. It's not clear whether you can run your own build slaves
with Bamboo OnDemand (like on our own hardware) or whether you have to use
Amazon EC2. Like Ben says it is supposed to be somewhat free for open
source projects. It integrates with GitHub.
c) Host your own Trac site that integrates with GitHub and use Bitten. Not
sure where the hosting would be (if you don't want it at INL).
d) Host some other CI webpage (like Buildbot, Jenkins, Hudson, etc).
I don't necessarily like (c) or (d) all that much because it's kind of
redundant with GitHub. If you're going to have your own server somewhere
running a Forge like website... then you might as well just host the repo
there too.
3. Continue to use Sourceforge and run Trac with Bitten. We could at least
try this and see what's involved and how well it works.... it's free to
try...
4. Set up our own hosting somewhere. I was using Bluehost (
http://www.bluehost.com/ ) for my own personal blogging website for a
while. It's cheap and reliable. We could certainly set up Trac / whatever
else there and manage everything ourselves. Someone will have to pony up a
bit of cash... but it probably wouldn't be much.
It really is too bad that Sourceforge, GitHub, BitBucket and the rest don't
offer any kind of Bitten like service. We don't need them to run the tests
for us... we just want to display the results there and allow us to manage
the build "recipes".
Derek
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Paul T. Bauman <ptbau...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Roy Stogner <royst...@ices.utexas.edu>wrote:
>
>>
>> I should point out that PECOS is happy to host Redmine support for
>> libMesh. I'm not sure how fine-grained the permissions control is,
>> though, and that might be a problem for something that we want to use
>> for public issues submissions.
>
>
> My experience thus far is that Redmine is very fine-grained for permission
> control. One particularly nice feature is that it's very easy to create
> subprojects that only a subset of people can see vs. everyone else. That
> said, I'm not sure how good an option this is mainly because that support
> will be tied to funding that PECOS gets. So if the money dries up, so does
> the support and then everything would need to be moved again. Granted this
> problem goes for just about any hosting site, but at least there's some
> precedence for some that have been around a long time.
>
>
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