[Incubator] CN and project scripts

[Frank Warmerdam]

Daniel Brookshier wrote:
> Normally customers do this sort of thing on client and upload builds to 
> the repository of files&docs.
> 
> CollabNet has never offered server side scripting for customers. Indeed 
> it is an often requested feature. I have requested it myself. It is not 
> a simple thing to implement at the scale of many of our sites and thus 
> engineering is reluctant to take on the task at this time. Partially 
> this is because of the nature of the sites beinging a large collection 
> of rather unpredictable non-homogenous applications plus operating 
> systems. Add the often unpredictable CPU requirements to guess that such 
> services are difficult to package as a service. Services to do server 
> side builds are in the works, but I am fairly sure these will be far 
> enough in the future that I would not depend on them at this time. It 
> will likely be a per-project service.

Daniel,

OK.  Certainly I can understand that letting external folks run arbitrary
scripts and programs on your servers would make it hard to ensure quality
of service.

>  I do not see a problem for the foundation to get servers for this 
> purpose. Sun does this a little on some of their projects where they 
> have servers for downloads and demo applications. The key is just adding 
> a server as a resource to the foundation. This may be a great way to 
> utilize existing resources from foundation members.

Right, we will undoubtedly need some self-managed servers for other purposes
anyways.

Best regards,
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