Hello,
I'm an admin, bureaucrat and checkuser on the Romanian Wikipedia. I have recently been given the opportunity to manage the content for domain wikipedia.ro. In short, I'm looking for a place where I could set up a versioning repository for all members of the ro.wiki community who care to get involved with the development of that site. We already have a hosting solution for the site, I'm only looking for a collaborative development repository. Is the Toolserver an adequate place for this kind of thing? If not, can you suggest a more appropriate location? (We have no budget for this, so it has to be free.)
I'm basically looking for a solution which would allow the community of ro.wiki to get involved in this in a rather lax manner, so I would ideally want as few formalities as possible. Therefore, from an access perspective there should ideally be an administrative role available, and all users with that access level should be able to add/remove members in the respective project without a lot of fuss. Is that doable, or do we need to jump a lot of hoops to get that sort of access level?
Thank you, Gutza
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Gutza:
I'm basically looking for a solution which would allow the community of ro.wiki to get involved in this in a rather lax manner, so I would ideally want as few formalities as possible. Therefore, from an access perspective there should ideally be an administrative role available, and all users with that access level should be able to add/remove members in the respective project without a lot of fuss. Is that doable, or do we need to jump a lot of hoops to get that sort of access level?
i assume by repository you mean a Subversion repository. we provide subversion hosting to users, but it's intended for use by users; every committer needs an account, and access control (who can commit, etc) is managed centrally, not by the user who owns the repository.
it would be possible to set up a special repository that had different access restrictions, but you might be better off seeing if you can host this at svn.wikimedia.org. if not, if you can describe exactly what you need, i'll see if it's possible to set something up here.
- river.
River Tarnell wrote:
i assume by repository you mean a Subversion repository. we provide subversion hosting to users, but it's intended for use by users; every committer needs an account, and access control (who can commit, etc) is managed centrally, not by the user who owns the repository.
it would be possible to set up a special repository that had different access restrictions, but you might be better off seeing if you can host this at svn.wikimedia.org. if not, if you can describe exactly what you need, i'll see if it's possible to set something up here.
- river.
Thank you for the info. Yes, I'm only looking for a measly SVN repository. It seems like this involves a significant amount of hassle and red tape on both ends -- I'll try Sourceforge, and if they decline I'll set up the thing myself, how difficult can it be?
Thanks again, Gutza
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Gutza gutza@moongate.ro wrote:
Thank you for the info. Yes, I'm only looking for a measly SVN repository. It seems like this involves a significant amount of hassle and red tape on both ends -- I'll try Sourceforge, and if they decline I'll set up the thing myself, how difficult can it be?
Did you have a look at where and how the current portals are stored? http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/wikimedia-web/www.wikimedia.org/
Well the problem using the wikimedia SVN is that adding users is tedious, in that they would have to ask Tim or Brion to add access for each new committer, possibly waiting quite a lot for the next "SVN account batch". I'd suggest not using it for that specific purpose =)
2008/12/8 Casey Brown cbrown1023.ml@gmail.com:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Gutza gutza@moongate.ro wrote:
Thank you for the info. Yes, I'm only looking for a measly SVN repository. It seems like this involves a significant amount of hassle and red tape on both ends -- I'll try Sourceforge, and if they decline I'll set up the thing myself, how difficult can it be?
Did you have a look at where and how the current portals are stored? http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/wikimedia-web/www.wikimedia.org/
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Thank you for the info. Yes, I'm only looking for a measly SVN repository. It seems like this involves a significant amount of hassle and red tape on both ends -- I'll try Sourceforge, and if they decline I'll set up the thing myself, how difficult can it be?
Thanks again, Gutza
Ich you have ssh access to the server that hosts wikipedia.ro (you should), and they have svn installed (many do), you can simply set up a repository there. Check with your hoster though if it's ok to give other people access there.
Or consider using a decentralized system like git. It eliminates the need for a central repository.
-- daniel
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