> -----Original Message----- > From: Jürgen Schmidt [mailto:jogischm...@googlemail.com] > Sent: Sunday, 16 October 2011 8:05 AM > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; ga...@16degrees.com.au > Subject: Re: Hosting OpenGrok? > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 10:53 PM, Gavin McDonald > <ga...@16degrees.com.au>wrote: > > > > > > > > -----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. > > > > i have not talked about other Apache projects or the experience of other > developers working on these projects. I simply tried to express my > experience that probably other developers working on the huge code base > of > AOO can confirm. OpenGrok is extremely useful, we had very good > experience > with it and i think we need such a tool. > > Try http://svn.services.openoffice.org/opengrok/ > > If you have a link to something comparable that we can try please let us > know.
I already did in my other reply , please read it. > > As far as i have understood viewvc it seems to be also useful but is not > comparable with OpenGrok. We used OpenGrok to search quite fast in the > source code (version specific) for any kind of source relevant strings > (member names, method or type names, ....) I already discounted viewvc also, you did not read my other reply. > > I don't wanted to be arrogant or presumptuous but i really don't care here > about other projects. I simply would like to achieve that i can work on AOO > efficiently as in the past. If other projects later on think that they can > benefit from using OpenGrok as well then it is even better. And I also already said not at this time. That means no. Gav... > > Juergen > > > > > > > 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/ > > > > > > > >
