Thread: [Brainstorm 2010] Garage and developer services
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Originally Posted by qgil View Post
It's been a while that I have been wondering about the mid term usefulness of http://garage.maemo.org . It made a lot of sense when it started in 2005, but nowadays there is a variety of rock solid services providing all those services, only not in a single place.
There are some advantages to providing them in a single place, including familiarity between projects, increasing possibility of cross-project collaboration; streamlined tools for Maemo use cases; web-site hosting and single authentication/authorisation point.

However, we could probably turn some of the defaults off for new projects.

The other big advantage is the offer of svn - for many tasks this is preferable (depending on the skills of the developers) - and I'm not aware of any gitorious-like service for Subversion.

However, there any many things around Garage which do need improvement: in particular, the communication around the move to vcs.maemo.org and drop.maemo.org were very poor. With svn relocation commands being discussed when developers had problems.

So why not leaving it in pure maintenance mode, pointing developers to the current better alternatives instead of trying to add even more beef there?
If it goes into "maintenance mode", it'll bitrot. However, if someone wanted to find the best-of-breed tools which provide the same features:
  • Website hosting
  • Version control (preferably choice of Subversion or git, but just git'd do for this list)
  • Bug tracking
  • Mailing lists
  • Blogs
  • Documents

...we could try and ensure tie-up between the services where appropriate.
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