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[Robby Stephenson]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007, Jens Seidel wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:37:18PM -0800, Robby Stephenson wrote:
> > Incidently, I've thought about trying to host the svn and maillist
> > myself.
>
> It would be possible to improve a few thinks this way. But what happens
> if you vanish? Not everyone makes a svn dump to be prepared for such
> situations ...

Hosting is probably a wrong way to have said it, I wouldn't have it on a 
server that I own. I was thinking more along the lines of a normal 
webhosting account, which I have already, and then installing svn there.

So there'd still be the problem of what happens if I just stop paying the 
hosting fee. :) But not of "What happens if Robby just unplugs his server"

> I know that SourceForge uses more and more commercial tools (database,
> ..) but apart from this I think it is sufficiently free.

Have they improved performance? One or two of the other projects I was 
associated with that used SF were always having problems with CVS being 
down, no replies to admin requests, slow bugzilla, etc.

> Debian's 
> Alioth project (alioth.debian.org) is completely free but probably
> restricted to Debian specific stuff. I don't know other project hosting
> sites well.

Regis replied to me and mentioned a few more. You're right about alioth 
being Debian specific, I think. I don't know if google hosting has 
everything I need. Berlios might be an option.

> > Which would include a bug tracker. Does anyone have any comments about
> > trac? http://trac.edgewall.org It seems to be a nice combination of
>
> I installed it once for testing purposes but have only very very
> restricted experiences with it. Please ensure that viewing (and maybe
> also filing) bugs works without account.

Absolutely. That's one of the reasons why running the services on my own 
webhosting account seems most attractive. Being able to tweak things and 
being in control of it.

> I really like Debian's email interface. I do not have to fight with 10-15
> parameters, I just specifiy the package name, the version and maybe a few
> flags and send this mail. I do not recomment using it, but a simple
> email interface beside a web frontend would be nice.

From what I could find about trac, there is no email interface. Roundup is 
an alternative issue tracker, which does have an email interface. I've 
never used it.

Robby