Re: ObjectWeb Portal

 > I'm of the opinion that we should move most infrastructure to ObjectWeb
 > and host demos, wiki, blogs, and other things like that on our
 > barracudamvc.org server.  That makes it so we administer only the stuff
 > we truly care about administering in our own way.  Stuff like CVS,
 > releases, nightly builds, bug tracking is all very necessary, but more
 > tedious to administer.  ObjectWeb gives us the ability to offload this
 > into their capable hands, leaving us with more free time to concentrate
 > on building, documenting, and having fun working with a great project
 > such as Barracuda.

I agree with this... sounds like a great idea!

-shawn

Jacob Kjome wrote:
> I'm of the opinion that we should move most infrastructure to ObjectWeb 
> and host demos, wiki, blogs, and other things like that on our 
> barracudamvc.org server.  That makes it so we administer only the stuff 
> we truly care about administering in our own way.  Stuff like CVS, 
> releases, nightly builds, bug tracking is all very necessary, but more 
> tedious to administer.  ObjectWeb gives us the ability to offload this 
> into their capable hands, leaving us with more free time to concentrate 
> on building, documenting, and having fun working with a great project 
> such as Barracuda.
> 
> Jake
> 
> At 09:25 PM 1/5/2004 -0500, you wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Another topic for discussion: Barracuda has been accepted as a project at
>> ObjectWeb. We need to decide exactly what that's going to look like.
>> Specifically, they'd like us to move everything to their project servers.
>> I'd prefer not to go quite this far, since:
>>
>> a) the community pitched in to buy our own machine, and I'd hate to just
>> abandon that
>> b) there really are advantages to having our own machine in terms of 
>> running
>> sample apps, etc - we can control the environment, and upgrade
>> libraries/software as needed, without having to worry about breaking 
>> someone
>> elses apps
>> c) the whole protection issue (this was more of a concern with Lutris 
>> than
>> OW, but the same prinicple still applies - if the sponsor goes away or 
>> gets
>> nasty, and you have your own server, its no big deal)
>>
>> So I've basically been thinking that we continue to run everything off of
>> http://barracudamvc.org, and just mirror the cvs source tree over at
>> ObjectWeb. Of course that means we have to figure out what's causing 
>> our box
>> to crash and fix it. And we also need to get mail archiving set up. 
>> And get
>> daily build working. etc. In short, we still have some work to do on the
>> Barracuda box, and we're particularly short on time right now. And as you
>> can see below, OW has quite a bit of infrastructure, plus people who 
>> support
>> it (so we don't have to).
>>
>> An alternate strategy might be to move a lot of the infrastructure stuff
>> _off_ of the Barracuda MVC box (like email, archiving, searching, 
>> etc), but
>> continue to host docs and sample apps on our own box. So the gist of all
>> this is I'm looking for input...what do you think of the ObjectWEb setup,
>> and what would you recommend for us to leverage?
>>
>> Shawn, Denny, Jake, and Diez in particular should chime in here...
>>
>> Christian
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> Christian Cryder
>> Internet Architect, ATMReports.com
>> Project Chair, BarracudaMVC - http://barracudamvc.org
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> "Coffee? I could quit anytime, just not today"
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