[OSUNIX-dev] Infrastructure choices

[Cyril Plisko]

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 2:13 PM, "C. Bergström"
<cbergstrom at netsyncro.com> wrote:
>
> 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

Christopher,

can you please elaborate a little bit more on why you believe these
tools are necessary. Or rather why the separate instance of these
tools is necessary ?

For example, with issue tracker - what sorts of issues are we going to track ?

Anyhow, see below my comments.

> ----------------------
> 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

I have no direct experience with jira, however, I've heard a lot of
good words about atlassian tools, so I am in favor of experimenting
with that.
Anyway, how easy is to export/import data from/to jira ?

> [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

Can you explain why partial clone/check-out is so important ? You are
clearly putting it above all other features.
I also believe that having SCM tool different than that of the
upstream, will not make the overall operation easier.

-- 
Regards,
        Cyril