[Kde-scm-interest] Alternate Git options

[Jeff Mitchell]

On 5/12/2010 10:10 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Em Quarta-feira 12 Maio 2010, às 15:34:23, Ian Monroe escreveu:
>> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Esben Mose Hansen <kde at mosehansen.dk> 
> wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 21:29:47 Jeff Mitchell wrote:
>>>> This all said, we discussed a few alternatives in #kde-git and I was
>>>
>>>> asked to put them on this list for discussion:
>>> I know this is probably a stupid question, but since I can't see the
>>> answer, perhaps other can't either. As far as I can see, we need
>>>
>>> 1. Actual git repositories
>>> 2. User access controls
>>> 3. Merge requests/reviewboard
>>> 4. A bug tracking system
>>>
>>> How about the really simple solution of git + ssh + unix groups, and
>>> patching reviewboard to support git, while keeping bugzilla as is? While
>>> nowhere near as fancy, it seems a robust solution with minimal impact
>>> and maintenance, where the only hard part would be the reviewboard
>>> patching. There, a simple solution could be a social control, where
>>> non-trivial patches are not pushed until reviewboarded, but are
>>> otherwise pushed in the normal git-push fashion? If we wanted to be
>>> fancy, we could have a sign-off SHA or URI in the commit message, which
>>> could even be required.
>>
>> On top of git + ssh + unix group you need some administrative tools to
>> handle user creation and management of hundreds of users. Thats what
>> Gitolite does.
> 
> We also need repositories connected to wikis. I don't like that the playground 
> today is a mess of stuff no one knows about.

Redmine or Retrovista would help there; when someone puts something in
playground they need (social policy) to create a project for it and an
associated wiki page.

--Jeff

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