Re: [Fwbuilder-discussion] Commits mailing list/ViewVC interface

[Vadim K. <va...@vk...>]

On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:02 PM, Tom Judge wrote:
>

> Having decided to take a quick look into the nightly builds I stumbled
> across the perfect example of why it would be useful for me/$WORK to  
> be
> able to see into your repository using some web interface and commit
> notifications.
>
> Reference:
> http://www.fwbuilder.org/nightly_builds/fwbuilder-3.0/build-791/ChangeLog
> Entry: 2009-03-24
>
> At $work we maintain all of our firewall configurations (approx 40  
> FW's)
> using FWBuilder (currently using 2.1.16 + some internal patches).  All
> of the configurations are stored in SVN in using 2 branches:
>
>    devel <- modified using Fwbuilder
>    live <- merged from devel and include some hand made changes that
> the version we use does not currently support
>
> Having looked at this ChangeLog entry it seems that you have added
> support for one of the things that we currently maintain by hand in  
> the
> live branch.  From my point of view it is easier to receive emails  
> with
> changes from upstream than to have to look at change logs  
> periodically.
>
> This commit is also relevant to $work as I have spent today validating
> the output of FWBuilder 3.0.3 against our 2.1.16 production version,
> this process has generated the patches/bug reports that I have filed
> today.  If I had seen this change then I would have integrated into  
> the
> internal version I am currently validating.
>


> If you can make your svn server available I am willing to setup a read
> only mirror and viewvc interface and host them.  I may also be able to
> setup a commit mailling list from this mirror.  Let me know if you are
> interested in this.

My SVN is currently on a machine I run at home so it may not be easy  
to make it accessible from outside. I can add your email address to  
the commit notifications that my svn sends, this is easy.

However everything is possible. I could move svn server to the server  
I have in collocation, it just did not seem to be worth the effort so  
far. Setting up  viewvc  also seemed like a waste of time since noone  
ever asked for it, until you did.

Can you tell me more about the way you use fwbuilder to manage your  
firewalls ? This sounds really interesting.

--vk