Re: repository location

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 23:56, Simon Large
<simon.tortoisesvn_at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10 March 2010 18:17, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Some time ago I've created a doc listing the pros and cons of various
>> open source hosting solutions since I'm not very happy with the UI and
>> the limitations on tigris.org.
>>
>> I'd like to propose that we move our repository to Google code. I've
>> listed the reasons why in said document, which you can find here:
>> https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AaqzZMak_nntZGhwNmhjY25fMTQ1Y2pxNHpiNjQ&hl=en
>>
>> For now, I suggest we only move the repository to Google code. Mailing
>> lists and websites can wait for now.
>
> +1 to moving the repo. tigris.org has always been horribly slow, and
> guest access a pain.
>
> Does Google provide commit emails?

yes.

> Does Google support hook scripts?

not really. But they have something called "PostCommitWebHooks":
http://code.google.com/p/support/wiki/PostCommitWebHooks

> Can we add a robots.txt to the tigris website to send the crawlers
> away? It comes up first in Google, but tortoisesvn.net is second. Or
> if we ask tigris.org nicely they might put up a 301 redirect to
> tortoisesvn.net in which case all roads will lead to the same place.

Just a notice without a redirect should be enough. Just like svn did:
http://subversion.tigris.org/

> Google groups are fine with me. We can get get mail forwarded to
> haxx.se as well for continuity of archives. If I want to search,
> that's where I always go. I gave up on gmane years ago.
>
> At some stage we might want to re-work the TSVN website. Drupal was
> good when we used the interactive FAQ but seems like overkill now. I
> think we could use something simpler and cleaner.

I agree. Also Drupal is a real pain when it comes to updates.
We could go for a static setup, with static html/php pages.

Stefan

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