[GT] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Hosting the project

[Raphael Hertzog <raphael AT ouaza.com>]

Hi,

Le mardi 27 juillet 2010, Bjarne.Christiansen
AT
nokia.com a Ãcrit :
> Fair enough, I tend prefer Mercurial, but I can definitely live with
> Git, if that's preferred. I'm a bit curious, what makes you prefer Git
> over Mercurial?

Is use Git a lot and I have almost no experience with Mercurial. Also I
have the feeling that Git is the DVCS that is spreading the most quickly.

> Not to be picky, but do you think we can get
> http://github.com/geniustrader, or is it possible to point a domain to

That's a good question. Can we have a shared repository on github or is
there only personal repositories?

> the repo, i.e. code.geniustrader.org ->
> github.com/clkao/finance-geniustrader?

The domain is hosted at gandi.net and we can have some services for free
if needed:
- web redirection (your example above)
- a blog http://www.gandi.net/domaine/blog/
  with multiple persons allowed to maintain the blog
- email aliases (for the mailing list for example)
  http://www.gandi.net/domaine/mail#nav

> RH> Sourceforge is very generic and probably the best default choice if
> RH> there's no consensus on the forge to pick.
> 
> Ok, let's say we rule out Mercurial, which means googlecode is a no-go
> (unless we stick with SVN...). In that case we could also consider
> http://indefero.net/ (see http://geniustrader.indefero.net/p/gt/), I
> really like the simple layout and it has support for git and Subversion.

But the storage is limited to 10Mb. Sourceforge has no restriction
apparently:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Disk%20quotas

> RH> We also need to consider the website and the mailing lists at least.
> 
> Thomas has previously offered some hosting possibility, but I tend to
> agree with you Raphael, we should as far as possible avoid using private
> server for hosting, at least for hosting the code. However, I haven't
> come across free webhosting for opensource projects, where you can point
> your own domain name? I reckon need something similar to what we have
> today?

Sourceforge offer all of this:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Custom%20VHOSTs

That's for the "point your own domain name". BTW alioth.debian.org or any
other FusionForge-based forge will offer the same.

Other features:
http://sourceforge.net/register-project/features.php

I'm not a big sourceforge fan (too much centralized there and sourceforge
itself is not free software) but it's certainly one of the best offering
out there. I used it for geniustrader before I switched to my own server.

> Well, it seems that we have a few volunteers who are willing to chip-in
> for getting this going. I speak for myself; I would like to get involved
> because I would like to see this project gaining more momentum, and I
> definitely think it would be very sad if the project just fades away! I
> donât have time for getting everything in place, plus maintaining and
> driving the project in future, but I very much like to take an active
> part in the work required! So I would vote for some kind of joint
> effort. 

Great to hear that!

Cheers,
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