> -----Original Message----- > From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Sunday, 16 October 2011 6:40 AM > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Hosting OpenGrok? > > 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.
That is a little bit presumptuous of the 3000+ committers who have so far not needed it. See my other reply. Gav... > > 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/installdescriptio > > n > > > [4] http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ > >
