Re: [pure-lang-users] Mailing list issues

[Ryan S. <rya...@us...>]

On Sep 28, 2008, at 02:17, Albert Graef wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> No problem at all. When you subscribe to a group, you get to say
>> whether and how you want email delivery.
>
> Great. I might just register a project with a mailing list there,  
> which
> points to the sf.net stuff for now. So that next time the sf.net staff
> decide they want to fiddle with their stuff and break everything over
> the weekend, when no support is there, we're ready to jump ship.
>
> Does anyone here have major gripes with Google code from a user or
> developer perspective? I'd appreciate it if you'd share your thoughts.

It seems ok. They're missing some things. Like you can't set up any  
repository hook scripts, though there's a ticket requesting they  
offer a few standard ones. I'm not thrilled about the wiki syntax in  
some areas. Your Google Account username is your svn username; if  
your Google Account isn't a GMail account, that means your svn  
username is your full email address. I didn't want that appearing in  
logs, so I made a GMail account; now my svn username is just the part  
of my email address before "@gmail.com". Probably more things I'm  
forgetting at the moment.


>> Like in GMail, they seem to be big on labels here, rather than
>> folders. You can give each download a label or labels, and the user
>> can sort or filter by labels.
>
> Ok, I thought that this dropdown list was static. Now that's just as
> good if not even better. Savannah doesn't seem to offer this, it's  
> just
> a simple file view (at least by default), which is no good if you
> maintain several subprojects under one umbrella. (We'll really need  
> that
> once the addon modules start rolling in.)

Please verify -- I just surmised that's how the download feature  
works. I haven't gotten to the stage in my project where I'm putting  
up downloads.


> Do you know of any really big projects on Google code, besides the  
> stuff
> by Google itself? I mean projects actually hosted there, not just some
> shell pointing elsewhere. It's always good to know if the stuff scales
> when projects (and the number of projects) grow. I think that might be
> sf.net's issue, they really can't handle all that load any more.

Not sure. Looking at the Google Code-hosted projects which have made  
their way into MacPorts, I see macfuse and serf, which are around  
1100 revisions each. That's certainly not huge, but not trivial  
either. I would think if anyone can do scalability, it would be Google.


> Also, does anyone here know whether it's possible to just move an  
> entire
> svn repo? We're still in the 0.x stage, but still I wouldn't like to
> loose the revision history.

Yes, you can use svnsync to transfer in your entire history.

http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=56673&topic=10386