[Nexus-developers] CVS -> Subversion

[Akeroyd, FA (Freddie)]

Peter,

 

Re: passwords: CVS stored your password in a ".cvspass" file in your
home directory when you first did a "cvs login" and may well send it
every time (or maybe once and use a token; not sure). Subversion uses
whatever method you set on the web server ... If you use https with
subversion you are using a public key to encrypt the data, but in our
case you would still be sending a password (stored somewhere on your
computer) as we are using http basic auth. We could issue certificates
and use them instead of "basic auth", but I'm not sure we need to.  

 

What do you do about accounts and password for your TRAC - are they
loaded from some central area? I'm sort of conscious of the possibility
of being spammed and so ideally would require an account for submitting
issues as well, hence the idea of linking to mediawiki as that has an
account creation, verification and "send me a new password" system
already in place. Your roles sound reasonable ... if you have a script
that creates the roles and adds permissions it will save me a load of
trac-admin commands. I guess we need to decide how we will use it Re:
definitions and also what is the status of the TRAK WIKI (like do we
disable it totally or use it as a developer whiteboard?)

 

Freddie

 

________________________________

From: Peterson, Peter F. [mailto:petersonpf at ornl.gov] 
Sent: 17 October 2006 20:55
To: Akeroyd, FA (Freddie); nexus-developers at anl.gov
Subject: RE: [Nexus-developers] CVS -> Subversion

 

Freddie,

 

It is useful to have a trac site for the definitions as well. We've set
up "roles" to promote "appropriate use of trac. The roles are named
(from least to most able): [everybody, authenticated, developer, editor,
admin]. What happens is that "everybody" can create tickets and view
most of the site, "authenticated" can annotate tickets, "developer" can
change ticket state, "editor" can work with milestones. I don't think it
is necessary to say what "admin" can do. I can send you a list of
information for setting this up.

 

The other statement is that I am curious about passwords since I thought
that I was using a public key to authenticate. Is this true?

 

P^2

 

________________________________

From: nexus-developers-bounces at anl.gov
[mailto:nexus-developers-bounces at anl.gov] On Behalf Of Akeroyd, FA
(Freddie)
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 2:40 PM
To: nexus-developers at anl.gov
Subject: [Nexus-developers] CVS -> Subversion

 

I've set up two repositories:  http://svn.nexusformat.org/code
<http://svn.nexusformat.org/code>  and
http://svn.nexusformat.org/definitions/
<http://svn.nexusformat.org/definitions/>  usernames and passwords are
currently the same as your old CVS ones. You should add "/trunk" to the
URL when you check it out e.g. http://svn.nexusformat.org/code/trunk
<http://svn.nexusformat.org/code/trunk>  Post commit hooks, such as
emailing you on changes, are not currently set up but you should be able
to check out and commit files.

http://trac.nexusformat.org/ <http://trac.nexusformat.org/>  points at
just the code repository ... do we see any need to use trac for
definitions? If so, I will create separate
http://trac.nexusformat.org/code/ <http://trac.nexusformat.org/code/>
and http://trac.nexusformat.org/definitions/
<http://trac.nexusformat.org/definitions/>  areas. To login to trac you
can use your subversion username and password, though login is not
currently required to submit issues.

With regard to usernames and passwords, I believe I can make the
trac/subversion ones the same as those in MediaWiki (either by using
mod_auth_mysql or making both use ldap for username/password); either
way will require a one-off reset of everybody's passwords. Do you want
me to go ahead and investigate this further?

With regard to moving the nexus mailing lists, I am awaiting some
changes on our site central mail gateway so that it will accept incoming
mail to user at nexusformat.org <mailto:user at nexusformat.org>  and not
think it is an illegal attempt to relay spam through us

Cheers,

Freddie

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.nexusformat.org/pipermail/nexus-developers/attachments/20061018/4bfb7ad7/attachment.html