[OSM-dev] git.openstreetmap.org

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Wed Apr 21 16:11:41 BST 2010


On 21/04/10 15:06, Chris Browet wrote:

> The real question is whether it is wanted/desirable to have the myriad
> of OSM related projects hosted under a single repository (or at least
> under an "openstreetmap.org <http://openstreetmap.org>" umbrella).
> I don't actually have any opinion on this.

Well one problem is that managing it will be a pain if we have lots of 
projects as an admin will have to create the repos and things.

The git security model also makes it a pain because it's OS security 
based so would mean adding lots of system users and creating some 
complicated system of group ownership to control who owned each repo.

To do it on any non-trivial scale we would probably have to use 
something like a local install of gitorious.

Tom

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