Just for reference for everyone else, Owen had mentioned http://gitorious.com/ on IRC when this conversation originally started. Looks like a self-hosted Github "clone" written in Ruby, so it's not outside the realm of possibility that we could host something similar to Github on our own.
On Dec 14, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Caius Durling wrote: > On 11 Dec 2010, at 22:46, Sean Coates wrote: > >>> = Configuration and Users = >>> I have absolutely no experience setting up or maintaining a git repo. I >>> like user-based authentication in SVN because you don't have to worry about >>> exchanging SSH keys. If there were a web interface that allowed users to >>> manage the key on their own that would at least partially mitigate the >>> problem. I suspect that a lot of people contributing, particularly to >>> -extras, would not know how to create or share an SSH key, which would >>> further complicate the process of introducing new users to our system. >> >> I don't want to step on Owen's one requirement, but Github *would* take care >> of this for us, I think. > > > Just run across https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite which would let us > self-host official git repos with the same access control we currently have > with svn. It's a cinch to then mirror those repos to github (post-receive > hook to push changes to github repos.) > > C > --- > Caius Durling > [email protected] > +44 (0) 7960 268 100 > http://caius.name/ > > > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev
