[Incubator] CN and project scripts

[Cameron Shorter]

On a similar line, Mapbuilder would like to host a demo site which 
contains Geoserver and Mapbuilder inside a Servlet engine (like Tomcat).

Is that possible within Colabnet?

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> 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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