[Gaim-cabal] pidgin.im server stuff

[Mark D. <ma...@ki...>]

Hey!  Now that 2.0.0 is starting to shape up it seems like we should figure
out what to do about hosting.  Sean, I imagine you have some ideas of what
you'd like to do?  Some sort of dedicated box would be good.  We'll need root
access (unless someone else is willing to manage email, web, and svn for us).
 I'd prefer Linux.  My distribution preference is Ubuntu 6.06, Fedora Core 5,
Debian Stable or Testing (in that order).

For a web server I prefer Apache 2.  I have no preference for email servers.

For revision control I'd prefer Subversion.  The only other version control
system in the running in my mind is Bazaar.  I prefer Subversion because I
feel like it's more stable and weathered.  I also don't see any major
advantages to using Bazaar.  But to be fair I have commit access to Gaim.  In
general I don't like lots of branches because they lead to extra overhead
merging things, therefore I feel like Bazaar would add MORE work rather than LESS.

For bug tracking I prefer trac.  I've been playing around with it and I think
it'll suit our needs.  I like the integrated wiki.  I like the project
roadmap.  I like that we can associate bugs and feature requests with a
particular milestone in the project roadmap.

I've set up a trac install on my home computer.  You should be able to try it
out by accessing http://mark.markdoliner.com:8080/cgi-bin/trac.cgi  IM me if
you have problems.  You can log in as an admin using username MarkDoliner and
password "admin"  It is purely a test installation, so feel free to delete
shit and edit crap, file fake bugs, close tickets, whatever.

I think I prefer ViewVC to trac's repository browser, but maybe only because
I'm used to ViewVC.  If we go with trac I propose that we disable trac's
repository browser and forward people to ViewVC.  This install is using
SQLite, but if we go with trac we should probably use postgresql.  Oh, and we
should customize the appearance a good bit.

If we don't end up using trac, I'd like to have some sort of wiki regardless.
 Mediawiki seems as good a candidate as any.

-Mark