Re: forge.OCamlCore.org is now ready to serve the OCaml community

Re: forge.OCamlCore.org is now ready to serve the OCaml community

[Michael Ekstrand]

Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> writes:
> At the moment, we have set up an hosting service for git and darcs
> (git.ocamlcore.org and darcs.ocamlcore.org). We are looking for
> experienced forge administrator that can allow us to manage this two SCM
> through GForge.  Contact us if you are interested.

Question - is there any chance that Mercurial is supported/available?  I
tried hg.ocamlcore.org, and it gave me a Darcs project listing.

- Michael

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Re: forge.OCamlCore.org is now ready to serve the OCaml community

[Sylvain Le Gall]

On 20-04-2008, Michael Ekstrand <michael+ocaml@elehack.net> wrote:
> Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@upsilon.cc> writes:
>> At the moment, we have set up an hosting service for git and darcs
>> (git.ocamlcore.org and darcs.ocamlcore.org). We are looking for
>> experienced forge administrator that can allow us to manage this two SCM
>> through GForge.  Contact us if you are interested.
>
> Question - is there any chance that Mercurial is supported/available?  I
> tried hg.ocamlcore.org, and it gave me a Darcs project listing.
>

We have setup darcs and git for now, but they are not integrated with
the forge. 

Submit a features request concerning hg:
http://forge.ocamlcore.org/tracker/?atid=102&group_id=1&func=browse
(provide information about hg, and web interfaces for hg...)

We can setup a hosting like darcs and git for mercurial, but i am not
sure we can integrate it into the forge (i.e. you will need to create
a project in the forge without SCM, and ask admin to create the
corresponding project in the hg.ocamlcore.org).

If you wish to help you can provide OCamlCore admin with a gforge plugin
that allow to manage Hg directly... we will be very happy to integrate
it.

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall

Re: forge.OCamlCore.org is now ready to serve the OCaml community

[Sylvain Le Gall]

On 20-04-2008, Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> wrote:
>> **OCamlCore.org is ready!**
>
> Nice work!
>
> Here is a related question, not specific to Caml but common to all
> Gforge-like services.  Assuming I'd like to transfer an existing
> development to an OCamlCore.org project (I'm thinking of SpamOracle),
> is there any way to import my existing CVS repository as a whole,
> without losing the history of the project?  I couldn't find any hint
> on how to do this in the gforge.org documentation.
>

There is no description because this is hackish ;-)

* create a project with SCM = CVS,
* copy your module/CVSROOT data to your /cvsroot/spamoracle/ using
  scp,
* fix rights (you can ssh to the CVS host)
* enjoy using the forge.

This should also work with SVN (svnadmin load).

Since i am not sure of what i am saying, i propose to test this and
write a little documentation. Just create the project spamoracle asking
a CVS SCM and submit a bug to "Site admin" with the tarball of what you
want to inject. I will take care of doing it myself:
http://forge.ocamlcore.org/tracker/?atid=101&group_id=1&func=browse

Regards,
Sylvain Le Gall

forge.OCamlCore.org is now ready to serve the OCaml community

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

Hello all,

**OCamlCore.org is ready!**

During the last few weeks, the OCamlCore.org Team, with the help of many other
members of the community, worked hard to fix a number of problems on the site.
Now we think it is ready for prime time. Therefore, following from the previous
announcement [1][2] of the availability of an OCaml planet and the OCaml forge
beta testing, we are now ready to allow full public access to OCaml forge.

  [1] http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/msg/6faedd72f77fd0df
  [2] http://groups.google.com/group/fa.caml/msg/f8342697120413fd

A forge is a set of services for software projects, including version
control systems (CVS, SVN, ...), mailing lists, download areas, bug
tracking systems, ... Well known examples are sourceforge.net, GNA, and
Savannah. The forge for the OCaml community [3] will be specifically
aimed at hosting software projects related to the OCaml programming
language.

  [3] http://forge.ocamlcore.org/

This new forge has been beta tested, but you could still found some bugs.  In
this case, don't hesitate to submit bug to the Site Admin project [4]

 [4] http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/siteadmin/

So if you want to start an ocaml project on forge.ocamlcore.org, sign-up
for an account on: http://forge.ocamlcore.org

We want to limit the use of this forge to OCaml related project. This include
software or library written in OCaml, but also projects around OCaml, using
derived languages (JoCaml, OCamlDuce, ...) or providing service for OCaml
community (tools for conference organization...).

Help needed
-----------

At the moment, we have set up an hosting service for git and darcs
(git.ocamlcore.org and darcs.ocamlcore.org). We are looking for
experienced forge administrator that can allow us to manage this two SCM
through GForge.  Contact us if you are interested.

We are also looking for talented web designer to make the look of
ocamlcore.org nicer. Join the project ocamlcore-theme and read the
README file to know how to proceed...
http://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocamlcore-theme/
http://forge.ocamlcore.org/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/trunk/README.txt?root=ocamlcore-theme&view=markup

Regards,
the OCamlCore.org Team.
(Sylvain Le Gall, Romain Beauxis, Stefano Zacchiroli, Pietro Abate)

PS: you will find the classical LGPL with static linking exception
License at the end of the license list when you create your project

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