{"id":458,"date":"2009-08-10T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T07:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.devco.net\/?p=458"},"modified":"2009-10-09T12:21:15","modified_gmt":"2009-10-09T11:21:15","slug":"google_code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2009\/08\/10\/google_code.php","title":{"rendered":"Google Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on a new Open Source development framework for PowerDNS and needed somewhere to host the project, typically I&#8217;d host my own SVN and Wiki and just take patches via email but I thought that&#8217;s a bit stupid for this day and age.<\/p>\n<p>I set up a Google Code project for <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/ruby-pdns\/\">Ruby PDNS<\/a> to give it a go and must say I&#8217;ve been really impressed with it.<\/p>\n<p>Feature wise it provides most of what you need when combined with Google Groups, Pages, Analytics and so forth but the core feature set is not all bad either.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They support SVN or Mercurial<\/li>\n<li>The wiki is (loosely) based on MoinMoin which is nice cos I already had lots of Moin docs for this project.&nbsp; Crucially you can access the wiki pages over SVN for local editing.<\/li>\n<li>The ticketing system is OK, it&#8217;s probably the worst part of the project hosting systems but I think I can get used to it for sure.&nbsp; Specifically I want to be able to add blockers and such when the ticket gets created already.&nbsp; I also want to look at the ticket and see all commits pertaining to this ticket, not possible it seems.<\/li>\n<li>Code commits can interact with the ticketing system, this is great you can make tickets, comment on tickets, add CC&#8217;s etc or even close or sent for code review from inside your commits, I like this alot.<\/li>\n<li>The source browser is good, on par with other self hosted ones I&#8217;ve used.<\/li>\n<li>Importing my old svn repo into Google Code was easy and kept my timestamps and all which I was very impressed with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In contrast to using Sourceforge in the past I have to say this is really quite pleasant to use.&nbsp; The recent re-design of Sourceforge which on the surface looks nice is in fact absolutely horrid, and as it&#8217;s the 2nd bad redesign in a row I think it&#8217;s time projects get new homes.&nbsp; For example a recent post to the Bacula lists mentioned their hatred for the new design too and they&#8217;ve had enough and will migrate elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for code hosting and use either SVN or HG, check out Google Code.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> You can update tickets from SVN commits, you just need to be careful about ordering of the text, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/support\/wiki\/IssueTracker#Integration_with_version_control\">Issue Tracker wiki page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am working on a new Open Source development framework for PowerDNS and needed somewhere to host the project, typically I&#8217;d host my own SVN and Wiki and just take patches via email but I thought that&#8217;s a bit stupid for this day and age. I set up a Google Code project for Ruby PDNS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[121,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}