Ages ago,
some users here were interested in using OpenACS to build a
SourceForge-like system, and of course OpenACS is an excellent tool
for that sort of thing.
Thus, some readers here may be interested in what
D. Richard Hipp
recently had to say about building a
SourceForge-in-a box, only a lot better.
Scroll down, for most of that email he's talking about algorithm and
implementation details of the Monotone VCS, then he gets to stuff like
this:
What I'm looking for is a VCS + bug-tracker + wiki that I can just
drop into a cgi-bin of some low cost web hosting site (like Hurricane
Electric, which I notice we both use) and have a ready-to-roll project
management system with no setup or other details to worry about. Kind
of a sourceforge-in-a-box, only a lot better than sourceforge. I'm
looking for something like monotone with CVSTrac enhancements that
works over HTTP. Nothing like that currently exists, I'm afraid,
so I've been working on my own.
Yes, it is a big job, though perhaps not any bigger than writing
an SQL database engine 😉
Monotone is my favorite of the current crop of VCSes by the way.
It has 80% of what I am looking for. What I'm really after is
a better monotone. I have been greatly inspired by your work,
as have others, I notice.
Then he posted some
more radical ideas.
Basically, drive as much as possible (everything?) through
the distributed VCS (e.g., Monotone++), each instance of which is
itself implemented with a Relational and ACID DBMS engine (SQLite).
That all seems, well, rather ambitious. But cool.
