Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Timothy Brownawell
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:29 -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote: > No, not at all like that. I would rather, as the previous poster > suggested, usher received the incoming data, and rather than spawning > the monotone server directly (as it does now), it requested a > privileged process to spawn the monot

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-22 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 09:54:17AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > There's been a lot of talk lately on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list > about this. Currently, Savannah offers CVS and GNU Arch, but > obviously people want to run their favorite SCM's to work on their > projects. Subversion has come up i

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-22 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:38:18PM +0200, Thomas Keller wrote: > Cool thing... but what happened last time? Did any project / code from > the previous SoC went into monotone? -- our switching to Botan, and test cases for SHA1 were from SoC -- Timothy did an implementation of *-merge, which was un

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Chad Walstrom
Thank you, Ethan, for replying. We are seeing eye to eye on this one. OpenSSH has had nothing but problems with trying to debug and secure the privileged separation code. It has poor interaction with other authentication systems, and has been all-around buggy. Yet, like Ethan stated, there are m

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Timothy Brownawell
On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:29 -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote: > The extra security comes in in that the usher server which listens to > the outside world and the privileged server cooperate in a very simple > and well-defined manner (e.g., perhaps the listening server sends > simply a tuple of {hostname,

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 13:29:36 -0400, Ethan Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: eblanton> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker spake unto us the following wisdom: eblanton> > So your listening server would basically be a proxy that eblanton> > sends bit back and forth between

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker spake unto us the following wisdom: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:29:00 -0400, Ethan > Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > eblanton> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker spake unto us the following wisdom: > eblanton> > I'm sorry, why can't usher *b

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:29:00 -0400, Ethan Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: eblanton> Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker spake unto us the following wisdom: eblanton> > I'm sorry, why can't usher *be* the master server? Adding eblanton> > a master server in between woul

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Ethan Blanton
Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker spake unto us the following wisdom: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:54:17 -0500, Chad > Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > There's the Postfix way of launching new services, a master server. > > usher could make requests of the master serve

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:54:17 -0500, Chad Walstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: chewie> There is the possibility of adding setuid/setgid calls to usher, but chewie> that means usher would need to be run as root or have some sort of chewie> capabilities package enabled i

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Chad Walstrom
Richard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sourceforge offers CVS hosting; gna.org offers Arch, Subversion, and > CVS hosting. > > So enabling one of these sites to offer Monotone hosting. I would > imagine that the process of setting this up could drive some feature > development in Monotone as wel

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Li
Btw... what do you mean with "public hosting"? Sourceforge offers CVS hosting; gna.org offers Arch, Subversion, and CVS hosting. So enabling one of these sites to offer Monotone hosting. I would imagine that the process of setting this up could drive some feature development in Monotone a

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Thomas Keller
Richard Li schrieb: Have we thought about projects related to quality, e.g., performance regression test framework and tests; documentation; multi-server testing; website enhancements; monotone public hosting; etc.? Indeed, all good points here - I already mentioned earlier that there are man

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Li
Have we thought about projects related to quality, e.g., performance regression test framework and tests; documentation; multi-server testing; website enhancements; monotone public hosting; etc.? Adding projects like this may enable people who are interested in Monotone but do not have the req

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Ingo Maindorfer
Hi Nathaniel, Adding stuff to automate is easy, knowing what to add is hard. What I always say is, send details on what exactly you want to accomplish to the list, and we'll figure out what needs to be added to automate to make it work :-). -- Nathaniel I think, for a very basic GUI-based wo

[Fwd: Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006]

2006-04-20 Thread Vinzenz 'evilissimo' Feenstra
Nathaniel Smith schrieb: Also, to everyone: what monotone-related projects do you think would be good for a student summer project? :-) (Or, just, what projects do you think would be cool?) What about a Tortoise-like Clone for Monotone? BR ___

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Zbynek Winkler
Alex Queiroz wrote: Also, to everyone: what monotone-related projects do you think would be good for a student summer project? :-) (Or, just, what projects do you think would be cool?) A Trac look-alike for Monotone! I'd like that too. The "instant sourceforge" drh talked about some t

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Ingo Maindorfer
Hi there, I just started playing with monotone a few days ago and still missing some GUI suitable for Windows. There is guitone, but in an early stage. Now I'm joining Thomas for helping. I do a port to guitone Qt4, but I still missing some commands in the automate interface. That's my wish: a m

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Thomas Keller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: or WxWindows/WxWidgets? Or Java? Or Lua? By the way, what *is* guitone? A small Qt GUI for monotone, residing in net.venge.monotone.guitone at venge.net. It currently only parses the workspace and displays status information for all directories / files in a Lin

Fwd: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 4/20/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > or WxWindows/WxWidgets? Or Java? Or Lua? By the way, what *is* > guitone? > For a long time I've been wishing that Monotone could be really scripted from Lua, albeit for selfish reasons, I admit. Maybe some student woul

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:38:18PM +0200, Thomas Keller wrote: > Nathaniel Smith schrieb: > >Google's running Summer of Code again this year: > > http://code.google.com/soc > > > >They invited us back again, so I went ahead and accepted :-). They > > Cool thing... but what happened last time? Di

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Thomas Keller
Nathaniel Smith schrieb: Google's running Summer of Code again this year: http://code.google.com/soc They invited us back again, so I went ahead and accepted :-). They Cool thing... but what happened last time? Did any project / code from the previous SoC went into monotone? Also, to ev

Re: [Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Alex Queiroz
Hallo, On 4/20/06, Nathaniel Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, to everyone: what monotone-related projects do you think would > be good for a student summer project? :-) (Or, just, what projects do > you think would be cool?) > A Trac look-alike for Monotone! -- -alex http://www.vento

[Monotone-devel] Google Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Nathaniel Smith
Google's running Summer of Code again this year: http://code.google.com/soc They invited us back again, so I went ahead and accepted :-). They seem more organized this time around, with actual infrastructure and such. If anyone is interested in doing mentoring, you can actually sign up with so