Project hosting thoughts

[Mike McGrath]

On 11/19/06, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Friday 17 November 2006 07:41, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > As a proof of concept
>
> I was able to get a proof of concept going.
>
> http://publictest3.fedora.redhat.com/
>
> The hg repo that feeds pungi is just a local clone.  I'd like to hear thoughts
> on how to give trac access to our hosted git and hg and cvs repos.  Are they
> on NFS anywhere?  Also, I think I had to chown apache.apache the repo, but I
> could be wrong, I need to verify.
>
> Authentication works through the Fedora account system, but right now it's not
> ssl.  If somebody wants to make it ssl, please do!  When I setup the pungi
> trac instance, I named 'jkeating' as the admin.  This gave me the ability to
> use the web-admin plugin of trac to finish the last mile configuration for my
> project, and would allow me to assign permissions to other folks.  I'd just
> need to know their fedora account name.
>
> All in all I think this is pretty slick, and it wouldn't take _too_ much to
> automate in some way.  Until then we could have a project request page that
> people could propose projects and some admin could create a trac instance for
> that project for the user.  There is some work being done on a 'trac-forge'
> that would allow users to create new projects on the fly, we might be able to
> source share with that project.
>
> Anyway, what do ya'all think?
>
> Matthew, can you setup a CNAME hosted.fedoraproject.org ->
> publictest3.fedora.redhat.com ?  I'd like to use this proof of concept for
> pungi, and approach project leaders for mock and plague to see if they'd like
> a trac instance too.

Just got this one done, hosted.fedoraproject.org should be available now.

             -Mike