[Buildbot-devel] re-hosting buildbot.net (was Developer Recruitment (summit topic))

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <maruel at chromium.org> wrote:
> I think not having to manage a server for buildbot.net is a feature. Unless
> you find it easy for you and you don't mind doing it, then ignore the
> following. I surprisingly prefer Google Code tracker than Trac, even if
> everyone says Google Code's tracker sucks, it's really usable when you save
> search queries and the summary display is way better IMHO since it's nicely
> configurable. The wiki sucks in some ways but hey, you don't have to
> maintain a server! Maybe I just used it too much and is biased. Please fork
> this thread if you want to discuss this but I'm not sure it's even worth
> since migrating would take too much effort. I think migrating to any free
> hosted site is better than managing one but it's a only a long
> term gain/cost. Feel free to disagree as I don't maintain buildbot.net (and
> won't!). Spam, accounts, finding a server, bandwidth, yuck. Too bad github
> doesn't have an issue tracker and wiki yet.

If I had it to do over again, I'd probably use github's issues/wiki
(it has both) or Google Code, but I don't see any great reason to
switch at this point.  Also, neither gives me a good way to host the
metabuildbot, dynamically created documentation, etc., so there would
still be some managed server out there somewhere.

Mike Taylor (bear) will be hosting buildbot.net.  We're in the process
of getting this set up.  With all the DNS re-registration, etc., and
US Thanksgiving, it may be a week or two.

Dustin