On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Robert Bradshaw
> <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote:
>>> Stefan Behnel, 16.11.2010 12:46:
>>>> when I try to hg push to cython-devel, I keep getting this:
>>>>
>>>> """
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>> SyntaxError: Error expanding 'sessionvars%urlparameter'
>>>> """
>>>>
>>>> Trac seems to be broken, too. Has anything changed on the Cython VM since
>>>> yesterday that could trigger this?
>>>
>>> hg is back to normal since William cleaned up the disk space. trac is still
>>> down, it seems.
>>>
>>> Robert, since you set up most of the infrastructure (IIRC), could you take
>>> an attempt at the migration to boxen?
>>
>> So, I've been thinking about this, and one of the reasons we're using
>> the current setup is that it requires very little administration from
>> me, as I am essentially leaching of the sagemath.org infrastructure.
>> Moving things to boxen would be a bit more administration on our part,
>> but still not too bad, and I know William is a happy enough Cython
>> user to be fine with continuing to host us :). However, I'm wondering
>> if this would be a ripe occasion to making the leap to something like
>> http://code.google.com. Currently, our infrastructure consists of
>>
>> 1. The web site
>> 2. Trac
>> 3. Wiki
>> 4. Repositories
>> 5. Buildbot
>> 6. Mailing lists
>>
>> Currently we're hosting 1-5, and 6 is being hosted by codespeak.net
>> (for cython-dev) and google (for cython-users). I think it may be
>> worth considering moving 2-4 elsewhere, as there is little loss and
>> they are the higher-maintenance (from an administrative point of view)
>> items, and features such as code review tools would be nice to have as
>> well. Trying to use launchpad was painful, so this decision shouldn't
>> be taken lightly, but I think we can do better. Of course
>> code.google.com isn't the only option, but even trying to be unbiased
>> about it I think it's a very good option, and
>> http://www.dataliberation.org/google/code-project-hosting factors into
>> it as well.
>>
>> In terms of the website itself, I think we should keep hosting that
>> (for maximum flexibility, and it's easy to administer), and there
>> isn't much of an option for 5 (though steps should be taken to reduce
>> its load).
>
> Robert has asked me to reply what I think about google code and
> github, since sympy has used google code since the beginning, e.g.
> last couple years, so I wrote this blog post about comparing Google
> Code and GitHub:
>
> http://ondrejcertik.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-code-vs-github-for-hosting.html

Thanks! To clarify, you never used google's distributed module of push
and pull requests? (hg, not git) Granted, I think github (and perhaps
because of git) gets this done smoother. What are the chances they'll
fix their issue tracker? :(

- Robert
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