MobileRead Development Hub launched!

[tompe]

Is the manage subversion access right page correct? I do not see how to change things. Is it possible to add specific users so they can check in code?

Another thing I really would like to do is to allow other people to upload binaries. But the dist is under my user name so maybe that is not possible or? Now binaries are uploaded in the forum which is a bit unneccessary...

[Alexander Turcic]

Tom, you can add users to your subversion repository from within the Trac Admin menu. However, the user needs to register first.

Btw, by default, everyone (including anonymous) has subversion read access. You can change that too from within the Trac Admin menu of your project(s).

No, it's not possible to add multiple FTP user accounts for one specific project. The idea of FTP is really to upload binaries that are specific to your project (like compiled sources). It is not meant as a replacement for the forum attachment feature which is a lot more convenient in many cases.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

No, it's not possible to add multiple FTP user accounts for one specific project. The idea of FTP is really to upload binaries that are specific to your project (like compiled sources). It is not meant as a replacement for the forum attachment feature which is a lot more convenient in many cases.

Well I am doing releases. i pack the Perl code to a tar file that has a version number an is a release. I put that in the ftp directory. But I do not build the Windows binary. So now somebody in the forum build the binary and attach it and I download it and upload it with ftp. You should not have to search the forum to find out if there are any binaries available so I think that the Window binaries should be available from the same place as the Perl release.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Tom, you can add users to your subversion repository from within the Trac Admin menu. However, the user needs to register first.

Btw, by default, everyone (including anonymous) has subversion read access. You can change that too from within the Trac Admin menu of your project(s).

I tried that and it is not working or I am misunderstanding something. In the Admin menu I choose "Subversion Access" but the only thing you can do there is remove and create subversion paths.

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by tompe

Well I am doing releases. i pack the Perl code to a tar file that has a version number an is a release. I put that in the ftp directory. But I do not build the Windows binary. So now somebody in the forum build the binary and attach it and I download it and upload it with ftp.

OK, I see the problem. When I added FTP services to the Hub, what I thought of was that at least one if not many developers work on the code of a project (via Subversion), but only one person, the code maintainer, will upload the ready-made binaries (via FTP). The way it's implemented, every developer (the maintainer) starting a new project on the Hub gets his own chrooted FTP account. Technically, it'd be difficult to break out of this restricted environment to allow someone access to someone else's FTP space.

I will keep your suggestion in mind, but I hope that in the mean time you'll be able to solve this problem by using the forum attach feature as a temporary space for the new Windows binaries of your project.

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by tompe

I tried that and it is not working or I am misunderstanding something. In the Admin menu I choose "Subversion Access" but the only thing you can do there is remove and create subversion paths.

You have to click on the existing path to add users to it. See attached screenshot.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

I will keep your suggestion in mind, but I hope that in the mean time you'll be able to solve this problem by using the forum attach feature as a temporary space for the new Windows binaries of your project.

The forum works. It is just me that have some feeling that attaching 10M files in email or in forum is a bad thing but maybe the world have changed so that is no longer the case. And I realize you can see a forum attachment just as a link to a web server.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

You have to click on the existing path to add users to it. See attached screenshot.

Aha. The problem was that the / link was so small that I did not find it. I tried to click to the right of it because I thought the whole line would maybe be a link.

[Adam B.]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

You have to click on the existing path to add users to it. See attached screenshot.

Ooh, look! Someone's giving me access to the root of their SVN!

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by Adam B.

Ooh, look! Someone's giving me access to the root of their SVN!

Adam, before you get too excited, think about the first letter of the alphabet

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by tompe

The forum works. It is just me that have some feeling that attaching 10M files in email or in forum is a bad thing but maybe the world have changed so that is no longer the case. And I realize you can see a forum attachment just as a link to a web server.

You are right; in the past, it might have been problem when attached files were stored in the database (as a blob) rather than in the file system. Today this is no longer the case -- all attachments are ultimately stored as real files.

[grimo1re]

I'm not a developer, rather an enthusiastic user. Whatever you can do to get smart brains to cook up even better things for us is all good in my book! So huzzaa for this initiative!!

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

We're pleased to announce our latest feature: the MobileRead Development Hub.

Every passionate developer and e-book aficionado invited to use the Hub for hosting his or her own open-source projects related to e-books and e-book devices. For every project you get the following features:

...

Feedback is appreciated.

Any chance of adding a new device. I didn't find the 'Fictionwise eBookwise' mentioned after following your 'New Projects' link. I had started to add 'mobi2imp' but had two problems:

1. the linux name needed to be mobiimp (without the numeric) - Ok did that!
2. the device had to be 'miscellaneous'. - Well, there is a 'Fictionwise eBookwise' device in the forums, do I really have to list it as such!

By the way, I must have not completed the submission because this new project doesn't appear on the Start Page, but the linux name 'mobiimp' has been created.

I would appreciate it if you could DELETE 'mobiimp' and I will start again (once the 'Fictionwise eBookwise' device listing gets added )

Thanks!

[Alexander Turcic]

Nick, it's really just the template (logo + link color) of the Trac Wiki that changes with the choice of e-book device. If you like, I can manually replace the logos of your Fictionwise projects.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Nick, it's really just the template (logo + link color) of the Trac Wiki that changes with the choice of e-book device. If you like, I can manually replace the logos of your Fictionwise projects.

Alex,

No need to do that for me . I thought the setting was somehow used to "automate" the process of adding a new project i.e. update start page and such.

Then, I noticed that I needed to do that manually anyways.

BTW, the info we get AFTER the new project is created, as tompe pointed out, is not acessible later on. Could you post those links and such on a help page?

Oh, oh, one more (stupid) question. Do I really need to install SVN on my Windows XP machine to upload to the src trunk? I couldn't do upload there with my ftp tools or browser (because it is secured).

Thanks!