Project Hosting Application

Noah Kantrowitz kantrn at rpi.edu
Wed Sep 26 05:44:55 EDT 2007


Danny, don't bother making a git tree for them. I was going to set them
up with a Subversion account on olpc.coderanger.net. Their team is
largely windows based so git will just be a headache (no that that isn't
normal ;-).

--Noah

Jason J. Kong wrote:
> 1. Project name             : OnLine Processing of Content
> 2. Existing website, if any :
> 3. One-line description     : A online content processing and
> management system for OLPC.
> 4. Longer description       : OnLine Processing of Content (codename:
> sara) is
> a content management system that accepts and catalogs media and makes it
> accessible to users of the OLPC Project laptops in an organized
> manner. The
> system will be simple and easy to use, store relationship information
> between
> content, and be language-portable. Content submitters can log in using
> OpenID
> to submit a wide variety of media such as images, videos, audio clips,
> articles,
> or translated versions of existing content, which will then be made
> available
> to users. All content is tagged to make it easy for users to browse
> related
> items, or find the same item in an alternate language.
>
> 5. URLs of similar projects :
>
> 6. Committer list
>   Please list the maintainer (lead developer) as the first entry. Only
> list
>   developers who need to be given accounts so that they can commit to
> your
>   project's code repository, or push their own. There is no need to list
>   non-committer developers.
>
>      Username   Full name             SSH2 key URL                   
> E-mail
>      --------   ---------             ------------                   
> ------
>   #1     debsj     John Debs        debsj-publickey              
> debsj at rpi.edu
>   #2    hurlop     Paul Hurlock-Dick    hurlop-publickey          
> hurlop at rpi.edu
>   #3    kongj     Jason Kong        kongj-publickey              
> kongj at rpi.edu
>   #4    zandem     Michael Zander        zandem-publickey          
> zandem at rpi.edu
>
>
>   If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please
> attach them
>   to the application e-mail.
>
> 7. Preferred development model
>
>   [X] Central tree. Every developer can push his changes directly to the
>       project's git tree. This is the standard model that will be
> familiar to
>       CVS and Subversion users, and that tends to work well for most
> projects.
>
>   [ ] Maintainer-owned tree. Every developer creates his own git tree, or
>       multiple git trees. He periodically asks the maintainer to look
> at one
>       or more of these trees, and merge changes into the
> maintainer-owned,
>       "main" tree. This is the model used by the Linux kernel, and is
>       well-suited to projects wishing to maintain a tighter control on
> code
>       entering the main tree.
>
>   If you choose the maintainer-owned tree model, but wish to set up some
>   shared trees where all of your project's committers can commit
> directly,
>   as might be the case with a "discussion" tree, or a tree for an
> individual
>   feature, you may send us such a request by e-mail, and we will set
> up the
>   tree for you.
>
> 8. Set up a project mailing list:
>
>   [X] Yes, named after our project name
>   [ ] Yes, named ______________________
>   [ ] No
>
>   When your project is just getting off the ground, we suggest you eschew
>   a separate mailing list and instead keep discussion about your project
>   on the main OLPC development list. This will give you more input and
>   potentially attract more developers to your project; when the volume of
>   messages related to your project reaches some critical mass, we can
>   trivially create a separate mailing list for you.
>
>   If you need multiple lists, let us know. We discourage having many
>   mailing lists for smaller projects, as this tends to
>   stunt the growth of your project community. You can always add more
> lists
>   later.
>
> 9. Commit notifications
>
>   [ ] Notification of commits to the main tree should be e-mailed to
> the list
>       we chose to create above
>   [ ] A separate mailing list, <projectname>-git, should be created
> for commit
>       notifications
>   [X] No commit notifications, please
>
> 10. Shell accounts
>
>   As a general rule, we don't provide shell accounts to developers unless
>   there's a demonstrated need. If you have one, please explain here, and
>   list the usernames of the committers above needing shell access.
>
> 11. Notes/comments:
>   The project is been working on with the help of Noah Kantrowitz.
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