[kforge-dev] Re: [kforge-user] Newbie here - howto config using sqlite?

Wed Jan 17 16:34:22 UTC 2007

Neal Becker wrote:
>> PS: in another email you were talking about support for hg repositories.
>> I have to say I hadn't looked at hg much until you mentioned it. As I
>> understand it is a decentralized VCS. As I understand it (and I don't
>> know a lot about these types of VCS) everyone has their own repository.
>> If that how does the access control/project membership stuff provided by
>> KForge help you out? Pardon my ignorance here but I'd be very interested
>> to know -- and it would obviously provide some motivation for
>> implementing that support.
> 
> You raise an interesting question here.  I believe that the mercurial (hg) 
> experts could answer this better than myself, so I hope you don't mind that 
> I'm forwarding this question to hg-devel list (which I access via gmane 
> nntp).
> 
> BTW, do I understand correctly that kforge is similar to 'trac'? (which 
> already has some support for hg)

Yes and no. KForge aims to provide something quite similar to 
GForge/Sourceforge. That is it is a platform for hosting multiple 
projects where there might be overlap of membership between the 
individual projects. One thing that differentiates our efforts from, say 
GForge, is an emphasis on reusing existing tools and trying to keep our 
code to the minimum level of glue needed to get them to work together.

To illustrate imagine you need to host several different projects 
(perhaps with overlapping memberships). Furthermore each project would 
like to have:

   * A repository (svn say)
   * A bug tracker (trac say)
   * A wiki (trac or moinmoin say)
   * A blog (wordpress say)

Then for each project you need to set up each of these pieces of 
software along with necessary permissions for each project. The aim of 
KForge was to make this simpler by providing a mechanism for people to 
create their own projects, add members and create various services (a 
trac installation, a subversion repository etc) for their project (all 
from a web interface).

So to answer your question about trac the simple answer is No in that we 
actually *use* trac and don't provide any bug tracking or wiki 
facilities in KForge itself. Instead those facilities are provided by 
one of the plugins which allow you to create a trac installation or a 
moinmoin wiki or a ... for your KForge project.

Regards,

Rufus