On Friday 10 April 2009 17:25:55 xor wrote: > > Hi, > > I did not really follow the discussion about emu and I just heard that you > guys want to get rid of it because nextgens will not administrate it > anymore. I do not know about all sevices of emu but I especially like the > following ones: > > - Automatic builds so that the webserver and mirror network automatically > contains a JAR file for every SVN revision. This is very helpful when > testing stuff together with other people on IRC. It also helps if you have a > problem with your node: If toad fixes it in SVN, you just run "update.sh > testing" ....
We will lose this when moving to git anyway. Building Freenet involves running unit tests, and running build.xml. We can protect build.xml but we don't want to have to protect the unit tests ... so it's just not sensible security-wise, especially if we have an external provider hosting the version control system. > > - Related to automatic builds: The log bot which posts about build problems > on IRC. Very useful because sometimes even though your local IDE builds a > commit succesfully it does not build successfully on EMU. True, it is useful, for all the reasons you have given. But I don't see it having a future. > > - The bugtracker is also useful, I don't know whether it is hosted on emu or > somewhere else. This we will be able to continue. The website uses php, the bugtracker uses php, we will need to get a php host somewhere. > > (- It might be also useful to run a Node on Emu in the future which hosts a > seed identity for the WoT plugin. This seed identity could publish very many > captchas so new users can join the WoT quickly. The alternative would be to > allow many different seed identities and specify our developers as those. > The disadvantage would be that their nodes might be down sometimes and that > their systems could be compromised and malicious trust values could be > published.) > > I would be sad if we lost the automatic build system just because we have no > admin currently. By the way, what does emu cost monthly? Cost is not the issue, admin is the issue. > > Greetings, xor -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20090410/eb781fd7/attachment.pgp>
