haven't looked at gforge in awhile..
does it have the ability to manage user access/roles/permissions for svn
files/folders now...
also, how can you accomplish this without having to restart apache, since
i'm assuming that you need to put the new folder into the httpd.conf file...
-----Original Message-----
From: grimm26@gmail.com [mailto:grimm26@gmail.com]On Behalf Of Mark
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 11:19 AM
To: Subversion Mailing List
Subject: Re: Re: subversion web client app
gforge?
At my company, we actually use a heavily modified version of
Sourceforge before they closed up their source. I translate project
members and roles in SF into subversion authz info here.
On 9/25/06, bruce <bedouglas@earthlink.net> wrote:
> justin...
>
> another constraint.. open source... collabnet is not free
>
> my comment regarding clients/access control is that the client app uses
the
> underlying permissions/privs assigned by the svn access file.
>
> my need for the webapp to deal with the permissions/access issues is that
if
> i create a new folder for the svn repos, then i want to be able to
> create/implement the user access privs from the webapp, with the resulting
> information residing in the svn access file..
>
> if need be, and for simplification process.. i could use the client apps
to
> do the checkin/checkout processes, and the webapp for all the other
> management functionality..
>
> but as i said earlier, this ties into a larger app/system that i'm looking
> at.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edelson, Justin [mailto:Justin.Edelson@mtvn.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 10:53 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Re: subversion web client app
>
>
> > as i understand the client apps, they also take into account the user
> access/roles assigned to the user for
> > the given files/folders within the svn repos.
> I don't think the clients take access control into account. Access
> control is managed by the server software or file system permissions.
>
> > what i need in addition to these client apps is the ability to track
> the status of the files/folders within
> > the svn repos.
> ViewVC or Trac will do this as it's just read-only data.
>
> > which means i need a way of allowing a user to be able to
> modify/manage the svn files/folders within the svn > repos.
> In order to modify a file, you need to checkout the directory that
> contains that file to a working copy, edit and submit from there. Now I
> suppose you could create a temp dir, do a checkout, make your
> modification, submit, and then delete the temp dir, but that seems like
> a lot of overhead which is why I asked if every user would permanently
> got a server-side working copy.
>
> Regarding your access control needs, have you looked at CollabNet
> Enterprise? I never had the opportunity to dig into this area with them,
> but I was under the impression they had a web gui for managing
> permissions.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bruce [mailto:bedouglas@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:42 PM
> To: Edelson, Justin; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Re: subversion web client app
>
> thanks justin...
>
> ok.. seems to be a screw up in my explaining what i'm looking for/need
>
> given that we already have solid svn client apps for windows/linux
> (tortiseSVN) there ia already a way for users to be able to checkin/out
> files from with a given repository. as i understand the client apps,
> they also take into account the user access/roles assigned to the user
> for the given files/folders within the svn repos.
>
> what i need in addition to these client apps is the ability to track the
> status of the files/folders within the svn repos.
>
> the svn repos forms the basis of managing the apps for the overall
> system that's being created. the apps go through different processes
> during development (dev/test/production). in addition, the apps are
> grouped together as they're run in the production part of the system.
> this has to be reflected in the svn repos structure, which means i need
> a way of allowing a user to be able to modify/manage the svn
> files/folders within the svn repos. i also need a way of
> managing/assigning the user roles/access rights for the given
> files/folders.
>
> i'd like to be able to handle these kinds of functionality in the
> webapp.
>
> the webapp would:
> -manage user roles/access rights
> -create access rights for files/folders
> -create/delete folders
> -upload/delete/copy/move files
> -move files from between folders
> -copy/move folders (and file contents)
> -show status history(comments) of a given file
> -etc...
>
> hopefully this clears things up a little more..
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edelson, Justin [mailto:Justin.Edelson@mtvn.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 10:20 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Re: subversion web client app
>
>
> Working Copy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bruce [mailto:bedouglas@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:18 PM
> To: Edelson, Justin; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Re: subversion web client app
>
> ummm - what's a WC?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edelson, Justin [mailto:Justin.Edelson@mtvn.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 10:17 AM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: RE: Re: subversion web client app
>
>
> So in this mythical web app, each user has a WC on the server?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grimm26@gmail.com [mailto:grimm26@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mark
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 12:57 PM
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: subversion web client app
>
> So we want something that does what ViewVC and trac do, as well as
> being a web based full featured svn client, AND is able to access and
> modify the authen/authz configs for the repositories and this mythical
> web app itself through said webapp?
> Sounds like a tall order. Sounds killer.
>
> On 9/25/06, Ruslan Sivak <rsivak@istandfor.com> wrote:
> > Trac doesn't actually let you make changes to a svn repo AFAIK. Only
> > view the revisions. It is an awesome tool and you should check it
> out,
> > but I don't think it works for this problem.
> >
> > Russ
> >
> > Ivan Aleman wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > You may want to give a try to trac [http://trac.edgewall.org/], you
> > > can do all the things you are describing and more check also
> > > http://trac-hacks.org
> > >
> > > Bye for now.
> > >
> >
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>
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