Installing a bzr server with web interface

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Lionel Dricot wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I want to install, on my Ubuntu intrepid server, a bzr server with a web
> interface. My bzr server should accept push (but could be completely
> closed to anonymous access).
> 
> I'm planning to use mod_python following this tutorial :
> http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/http_smart_server.txt
> 
> But I have no idea on how to integrate this with a webinterface. And
> what are the available webinterface ? I want to stick with deb packages
> as much as possible. I really don't want to invest time to install svn
> snapshot of turbogears (
> 
> I've seen loggerhead but :
> - there's no demo I can try (or at least, I didn't find it)

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk/changes

or really any

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~user/project/branch


> - there's no deb package (and that's a big turnover for me)

I'm suprised at this one

> - there's no documentation at all on how installing it
> 
I thought they had things updated for newer versions. Certainly older
versions were poorly documented, but Martin Albisetti did a whole lot of
work improving that.


> Also, I've seen trac-bzr but :
> - I don't know how to integrate it with a repository
> - I don't know if it's usable (I've seen a lot of messages saying that
> it's still not really useful)
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance for sharing your experience and your advices
> 
> 
> Lionel

I would recommend Loggerhead over trac-bzr, mostly because Trac was
pretty much written around how SVN worked, and I think it is a poor fit
for most of the distributed VCSs. That said, Trac-bzr is going to
include more stuff. Like a wiki, issue tracker, etc.

Loggerhead is just a branch viewer, while trac-bzr is a project
management system. It depends what you need.

Of course, I would be remiss to not point out that Launchpad gives you a
bug-tracker, email lists, and LH as a branch viewer, all maintained by
other people so you don't have to spend your time doing it. But
certainly if you want it hosted on your site, it isn't an option.

John
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