Re: [Monotone-devel] Indefero code forge with monotone support released

[Thomas Keller]

Hi Martin!

> thanks for your hard work on this. I've seen you're not just adding
> monotone support but generally improving it in other areas as well.
> Indefero looks really nice and it's very practical for (opensource)
> projects with the multiple projects approach as it allows for better
> workflow with contributors and "derived" projects. The 'issues' module
> and other features are great plus too. It's also slightly better for
> admins as it's written in PHP which every admin know and most likely
> already has setuped.
> 
> Personally I'm using monotone since 2004 and it's my favorite DVCS for
> it's design, compactness, one of the cleanest C++ code I've ever seen.
> I like monotone so much that I consider myself a contributor, though
> I've not contributed much in code, just few bits in the past. But
> I would like to have monotone being more used and my strategy for this
> is by using in my opensource projects. It's a very long-term process
> generally, but hopefully at least one of these will reach critical mass.
> 
> I've also recently looked more on GIT and some other DVCSs and I must
> say after reading about various features and workflows I'm little
> horrified about dangerous usage (like rebase), weird branching and other
> stuff. I like monotone even more since that :)
> 
> Particularly it seems they're generally stuck with the idea of having
> every commit perfect, even when that requirement is not really needed in
> DVCSs. And that desire drives various weird features and workflows. Also
> I feel GIT is really a special case for Linux kernel development since
> I've never met any other project that is developed in similar fashion.

Many thanks for your warm words - our little team and especially me, we
are all appreciating this kind of feedback a lot. Thank you!

>> If you want to try out Indefero with monotone support, grab the zip [2],
>> follow the generic instructions to set up the base system [3] and
>> finally read the instructions how to configure the monotone plugin [4].
>>
>> We'd love to get some feedback from you!
> 
> I'll be setuping it within about one month so I will post my experience
> with setuping it then.

Ok, let us know if you stumble upon any kind of problem, you'll reach us
through IRC at any time (#indefero at freenode and #monotone at oftc).

Thomas.

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