FW: [Savannah-users] Help with installing loggerhead, the bzr web-based browser

[Martin Pool]

On 16 November 2010 06:15, Sylvain Beucler <beuc at gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:07:22AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote:
>> On 14 November 2010 20:22, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
>> > GNU Savannah (http://savannah.gnu.org/) is looking for help: we'd
>> > like to install loggerhead, the bzr equivalent to viewvc/gitweb/etc., but we
>> > don't know this tool well.
>> >
>> > People at the last GNU get-together in Gothenburg reported this as
>> > particularly needed.
>> >
>> > You can help in two ways:
>> >
>> > - - Offer to install and maintain loggerhead at Savannah
>> >
>> > - - Find somebody who would do it :)
>>
>> Hi, Sylvain,
>>
>> I have enough on my plate now that I don't want to take on a ongoing
>> sysadmin job that I probably couldn't give enough attention to.  But
>> if there are particular questions about loggerhead or particular bugs
>> that are getting in the way, then I will try to fix them or find
>> someone who can.
>
> I am essentially in the same situation and I understand perfectly.
>
> I think what would immediately help, is to get details on how existing
> loggerhead (or equivalent) installs are setup.
>
> For instance, it would be great if the person in charge of launchpad's
> loggerhead could add a few details on the setup at this wiki page:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/Bzr

I'll answer them here, and then we can discuss more easily than
through a wiki page.  (cc anyone else, or a list, if you think it
necessary...)

> stability: loggerhead tended to produce Apache proxy errors (probably because it crashed), how to have it running for months?
> activity: last release 0.17 is from 2009-08, that's old

Happily, Max has just made a new 1.18 release
<https://launchpad.net/loggerhead/+announcement/7191>, which includes
many stability fixes.

> code to use: there's been commits since the last release - do we need to use the trunk?

The 0.18 branch is going to continue with safe bug fixes, while we do
some larger changes in trunk.  I hope we will do an 0.18.1 etc similar
to what we do with bzr.

> alternatives: maybe there are better tools than loggerhead?

Loggerhead is the way to go.

> It can be very basic information: what release/branch/package is used,
> what patches, what helper scripts, what troubles (if there's any)?

I think we run the plain upstream release (soon from the 0.18
tarball), with no patches applied, just theming applied through
configuration.  I will prod someone who knows more about how it's
deployed to answer.

-- 
Martin