Hi JS, Jose is actually setting up a virtual server for us, this should allow us to add external users to have admin rights for helping maintain the server. Once the server is set up, and the dust has settled after 2.8.0 we can look at exact what services we want to provide from the sever.
Robert. On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Jean-Sébastien Guay <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Robert, > >> One thing that might help would be to make sure the exploration phase >> consisted of several small tasks that were doable in a couple of weeks >> of development. The outcome would be small demo and the key part - >> knowledge about this new domain. Such projects could easily by >> managed as separate projects, or perhaps as a collection of >> experimental projects that act as a scratch pad. > > I know Jose Luis is busy right now with the website stability issues. But > this begs for OSGForge to become fully open, i.e. have users be able to > register new projects and have automatic access to an SVN, a wiki and a bug > tracker for their project, all from a single central site which is OSG > branded (as opposed to having OSG-related projects scattered on SourceForge, > Google Code, authors' personal sites, and who knows how many other places). > > I seem to remember seeing that SourceForge's server software was open source > and could be used to create similar sites. If this is true, or if something > similar exists, perhaps this would be a better choice than Tracs for an > OSGForge type of site? We could keep Tracs for the main OSG site though (but > maybe upgrade it to the latest version so that users can register accounts > instead of all using the osg account for wiki edits). > > I've offered my (part-time) help in maintaining the OSG site to Jose Luis in > the past, but he said since the server belonged to his school they would be > reluctant to let an "outsider" get access to one of their servers. Perhaps > when the server is moved to a virtual server, this issue would be less > important since the server would be isolated from their own network, and I > could lend a hand. > > I think getting a distributed infrastructure and letting users register > (both for accounts to edit the wiki and for OSGForge projects) is of vital > importance for OSG's surrounding ecosystem, especially since we are talking > more and more about nodekits being important for OSG 2.x and new API > support/tests being important for OSG 3.x. > > J-S > -- > ______________________________________________________ > Jean-Sebastien Guay [email protected] > http://www.cm-labs.com/ > http://whitestar02.webhop.org/ > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
