Re: [gnugo-devel] Wiki and issue tracker

[Gunnar Farnebäck]

I wrote (on June 5):
> I have set up an installation of Trac to be used in the GNU Go
> development. This provides (primarily) a general issue tracker which
> would be suitable for patch and bug report management, and a wiki
> which can be used for whatever seems a good idea to have on a wiki.

This service has now been improved in two important regards, as
detailed below.

> General information about Trac can be found at
> http://projects.edgewall.com/trac
> 
> The GNU Go Trac installation is at http://83.250.34.74/gnugo/trac.cgi
> Start by following the first link and read the provided information.
> 
> Two things to notice:
> 
> 1. This is being run on my home computer with a dynamic address which
>    might suddenly change. That has not happened yet, but if it does an
>    updated link will be available from the links section of
>    http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/patches.html
>    The long term solution is of course to get a real address.

It's still true that it's being run on my home computer but it now has
the stable address

http://trac.gnugo.org

Many thanks to Jerome Dumonteil for helping to set this up.

> 2. Anybody can read everything but to get write access you need to
>    have an account. To get one, send me a mail with desired account
>    name and password, alternatively talk to me on a go server. The
>    idea is to give out accounts to anyone who asks and has made some
>    kind of presence on this list (or on the computer-go list).
> 
>    If someone knows how to set up Apache to allow a more automated
>    account management, at least a way for users to change their
>    passwords, please tell.

After upgrade to Trac 0.9b1 and installing an account manager plugin,
users can now both register themselves and change their passwords. The
register link is in the upper right corner.

/Gunnar