[OSUNIX-dev] Infrastructure choices

["C. Bergström"]

Hi and good weekend everyone..

Decisions about infrastructure choices is around the corner and wanted 
to ask those on the list for feedback.. If there are specific 
tools/features you find particularly helpful or important please make 
suggestions now.

I'm open to both closed source products willing to sponsor our community 
or entirely open source tools.  Personally, I'm less religious on this 
and more about efficiency and solving real problems..

I'm hoping this doesn't turn into a messy thread, but some of the things 
under consideration:

    1) Issue tracker (jira, bugzilla, mantis, google code, bitbucket, 
or.. ?)
    2) Code review tools (webrev, crucible, or..)
    3) Forums
    4) Do we want a wiki or is there a better way to handle this
    5) hg vs git? (Please read note [1])
    6) Blogging platform

I'd prefer to handle this in some organized.. vote + reason manner 
why/concerns manner
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My votes currently..

Issue tracker and code review for me is hands down jira / crucible.. 
Even if closed source I find those tools easier to work with and will 
long term save us time on bug wrangling, setup and maintenance.  Also 
amount of plug-ins around this is quite good and could help us in many ways.

+1 jira/crucible

For the other things I think it falls in two columns for me.. redmine or 
clearspace community

I'm highly partial to the new clearspace community and see it as solving 
a lot of problems in a coherent organized manner.  The problems which 
exist in the current jive forums has been solved.  If we don't want to 
integrate the forums with the mailing lists if we don't have to.

+1 clearspace

[1] git vs hg should not even be brought up, but I know a lot of people 
are already familiar with hg.  The reasons why not to use git since the 
initial evaluation have been resolved.  git may offer technical 
advantages such as partial or sub tree check out.  Git has a larger 
community and probably long term will grow faster than hg.. (I'm a big 
fan of hg, but even Chris Mason switched)  Those contributing to other 
projects (dragonfly bsd, perl, linux/gnu project may already be familiar 
with git)

+1 *distributed* fast scm which will allow partial/subtree check-out

+1 typepad..  The guys at typepad have been kind enough to offer us a 
good discount.  With this I can probably afford to host *a lot* of 
blogs.  (A few months back I evaluated almost every blogging platform I 
could get my hands on and with the updates typepad made recently I think 
it's a really good choice..)

Cheers,

./Christopher