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Trac/Subversion Feedback

Submitted by kstaken on Tue, 06/05/2007 - 3:09pm.

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Trac/Subversion Feedback

Multiple projects in Trac/SVN

Submitted by BabaBooey on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 12:00pm.

I have been doing some reading through the Trac/SVN forums and playing with the trial version.

I am thinking that the show stopper for us might be in not having multiple projects/repositories within one, easy to setup and administer, instance of the JumpBox. I understand that we could pay for separate instances, for each project and, make room for them on our ESX box, but that's a hassle and a waste of resources, IMHO... Why have four individual JumpBoxes all running 1-2% cpu utilization and allocated 256 megs of ram when I could have one doing all that work? Goes against the same reasoning we came up with for virtualization in the first place, haha. I know, I could go the command line route and setup more projects manually, but if i have to get on the command line and possibly break functionality within the JumpBox, well, that isn't ideal either. If it isn't 100% supported by those that create the JumpBox, then I am less inclined to do it.

Maybe I am missing something. I haven't been able to figure it out yet, maybe I didn't see that one thread in the forums that gave the "easy way out" instructions. I think it is a wonderful JumpBox! I like some of the other Jump

A little insight to this n00b would be much appreciated.

Multiple projects in Trac/SVN

Submitted by godber on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 1:19pm.

Well, you can run multiple projects on one Trac JumpBox they would all just live in the same Trac and SVN instance. Careful SVN path policies and trac component usage could make it possible but not suitable for everyone.

As for how the virtualization platform handles multiple, nearly identical, guests depends largely on the platform you are using. Resource sharing capabilities vary quite a bit. For instance ESX can share memory between guests (Offsite PDF link).

Since we created the Trac JumpBox we have debated adding a convenient way to create multiple instances. We may some day, but none is planned in the immediate future.

You might check out the Redmine Beta JumpBox, it is still pretty young but has nice multi project functionality. It is a beta though.

Austin

I think you missed a point i

Submitted by BabaBooey on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 2:07pm.

I think you missed a point i was trying to make about virtualization... No worries:)

Thanks for the info, we're still plugging along with it. If you had a way to do the multiple instances, we'd be prying the credit card out of the Director's hand ASAP.

I will look at the Redmine. I also downloaded Project Pier to play with too. I love FOSS and I finally have a chance to introduce it here at work.

If we can get source code and project management for a number of different sites setup under one hood, we'd be much happier. Otherwise, too much work for an overworked and understaffed department.

Thanks again!

I agree with the remarks

Submitted by bwilhite on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 4:27am.

I agree with the remarks concerning updating .svn.

SVN Update

Submitted by godber on Wed, 04/16/2008 - 10:01am.

Once our new platform is out of beta, we will update the Trac and SVN. This should happen in the next few months though I can't guarantee when. The more feedback we get on our beta JumpBoxes at http://www.jumpbox.net the sooner this is a reality.

Austin

Thanks for the feedback.

Submitted by godber on Thu, 11/01/2007 - 1:18pm.

Thanks for the feedback. The more we know what people want the better we can make decisions.

Austin