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Jan. 2, 2011 20:45 CET

Heute im Programm: Rodeln für mittelschwer Verrückte. Auf dem Foto die "Half Pipe" für Rodler (am Pfänder). Am Schluss dann noch die ganze Abfahrt bis runter nach Bregenz gewagt - und im Dunklen angekommen ;-) Nach heißer Reanimationsdusche jetzt trotzdem völlig K. O...

Sept. 26, 2010 13:40 CEST

Heute Vormittag eine Spritztour mit Quads eingelegt - Start im Regen, also erst mal schön durchgeweicht. Später ging's dann, aber kalt war's... Hat trotzdem riesig Spaß gemacht.

Sept. 25, 2010 00:00 CEST

Deja vu: Ich bin am Bodensee, und es kübelt wie aus Eimern. Deprimierend! Wehe, wenn morgen kein besseres Wetter ist...

Oracle takes first actions at Sun

Posted by Jesco Freund at Feb. 2, 2010 10:07 p.m.

… and closes Sun's open source project hosting site, Project Kenai (see this blog entry for details). I do not yet know how to take this, given the fact that the above-mentionned announcement promises that shutting down kenai.com is only one step towards consolidation of project hosting sites among Oracle and Sun. On the one hand, I can understand that running several project hosting platforms does not exactly meet the notion of “efficiency”. On the other hand, taking a look at java.net, the competing (and longer-existing) hosting platform with focus on Java projects, I must try very hard not to vomit over my keyboard (and who tells me that java.net won't be the next site being “consolidated” by the Oracle management?)

Following this discussion, many current Kenai users will move their projects to hosting platforms outside the Oracle/Sun scope. However, it seems to be very hard to find and appropriate replacement, given that Kenai offered a nice bundle of features: JIRA or Bugzilla for issue tracking, Subversion, Mercurial or Git for source code management plus wikis, mailing lists and chat rooms to communicate. The only other hosting platform I know offering the same range of professional development tools is Sourceforge. However, I personally would not start new projects or migrate existing ones to Sourceforge, for a couple of reasons (speed of SCM repositories is abysmal, the same goes for the web frontend, configuring a project is a real nightmare consuming more time than writing the code, access from every country defined as “axis of evil” has been blocked, etc. …)

Being right fed up with bad news concerning project hosting platforms, I decided to create my own one – at least for my own projects. For that purpose, I intend to revive my projects.my-universe.com subdomain, kick Redmine and replace it with one Trac instance per project. Additionally, I'll finish configuring my Mercurial server and live happily ever after.

Update :-P I did it! The Mercurial server is running at http://hg.my-universe.com/ (but there aren't any repositories yet). It runs Lighttpd and Mercurial is served via FastCGI. If you'd like to know how I did this, you can read it up since I wrote a small how-to in the RootForum Wiki (German).

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