On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name>wrote:
> Someone asked this a couple of weeks ago, IIRC the answer was (a) need > to evaluate this, (b) viewvc (which is already installed) has > a search feature, whether it would be sufficient. > yes, that was me who asked on the infra structure mailing list and i will come back to the evaluation. But after the first look i tend to evaluate opengrok in a zone, vm or whatever on the Apache infra structure. From a developers perspective opengrok is an absolutely necessary tool that we need. Juergen > > Rob Weir wrote on Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 18:58:27 -0400: > > The legacy OpenOffice.org project had an instance [1] of a source code > > searching, cross reference application called "OpenGrok"[2]. It is > > very useful, especially in a 6 million LOC project like OOo. > > > > Have we ever used OpenGrok at Apache? If not, is there an alternative > > that other projects are using? Or are most other projects small > > enough that local IDE cross reference databases are sufficient? > > > > The pre-req's for OpenGrok are on their website [3] and include > > GlassFish or Tomcat (6.x or later) with Java at least 1.6, and > > Exuberant Ctags [4] > > > > Is this something that appears technical feasible, based on the server > > support have at Apache? Easy, medium or hard? > > > > If this seems like a relatively easy thing to get hosted on Apache > > infrastructure, we can discuss further on the project to see if we can > > find a volunteer to drive it. But I wanted to check first to see if > > this looked reasonable. > > > > Regards, > > > > -Rob > > > > > > [1] http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/ > > [2] http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+opengrok/WebHome > > [3] > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+opengrok/installdescription > > [4] http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ >
