[OSGeo-Discuss] Proposal to find an alternative to Collabnet

[Jody Garnett]

Hi Cameron, thanks for keeping discussion open and on the list. Much 
nicer out in public even when difficult.

 From my perspective I got a lot of work to do to get GeoTools ready and 
Collabnet is the last thing on my mind. I am way more concerned about 
what the standard Look and Feel ends up being for OSGEO projects... 
because that I will match.

We origionally started using Confluence for the uDig project and looked 
into porting the content to Drupal. It really did not work and i would 
be sorry to say how much time we spent on it. It was interesting how 
effective donating confluence is to open source projects is for Allisian....

Thanks for quoting the following page, the tables near the bottom were 
started by me to explain why GeoTools is not moving
to Collabnet at this time... which is not to say we are not hurting for 
resources (in the meeting to day we were talking about hosting
builds on TOPP and Refractions servers).
> This page is a good start:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Project_Infrastructure_Migration
So what I want is this:
1. Web LNF from the webcomm (who I have not had a chance to help with 
until the geotools IP check is done)
2. Update my confluence sites to match
3. Keep tabs on CollabNet offerings, and how seriously intergrated LnF 
is as a requirement for OSGEO projects

If the times comes to switch, and it may, it will be based on the least 
hassle for developers on the project. The performance of confluence
on the codehaus is a trouble, and I can no longer export based on the 
timeouts experienced (bleck).

One serious issue is that most of our navigation structure is based on 
parent child page relationships included in pages via macros, this is 
the kind
of thing that never translates well - even if the base content does. So 
I am really not going to give this much more thought until it becomes a 
problem. It is nice having CollabNet as an escape avenue if needed.

All the best,
Jody