[Systems] [gitorious] Progress with Gitorious mainline

[Johan Sørensen]

Hi Bernie,

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
> "rake gems::install" fails with the error "uninitialized constant
> Grit::GitRuby" regardless of whether the correct version of grit was
> already installed.  I sidestepped it by installing the gems manually.

That is odd, since it should use the one in vendor/grit/ and not the gem.

> After the update, I did some light testing, and things seems to hold.
>  The wiki pages are broken for old projects, and I couldn't yet figure
> out how to get the wiki created on new projects.

if you run "script/create_wikis create_repos", run the created tasks
and then "script/create_wikis load_readmes" it'll create the wiki
repositories for each project you have and load up something that
looks like a readme (if found) in the mainline repo as the Home wiki
page.

>
> A few questions:
>
>  - What version would you recommend for production at this time?
>  - What version is hgitorious.org presently running?

Gitorious.org runs HEAD, or at most a few commits behind.

>  - Are formal releases going to be available?

Up until recently gitorious' sole aim was to work for gitorious.org
and local installs for those brave enough. But I see a bigger need now
for something more easily installable and a part of that is probably
traditional releases.

>  - Is there a development roadmap?

Not much much beyond
http://gitorious.org/projects/gitorious/pages/Todo for the near
future. I see gitorious as a fairly fluid project where features enter
based on need and good ideas.
I don't like putting down long-long term roadmaps into writing as that
tend to set it in stone, even if it turns out to be a bad idea when
the time comes around. However, the overall goal of gitorious is to
make it easier to collaborate on a project and there's plenty left to
do in that department.

>
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>

Cheers,
JS