[eXPlainPMT] Oi! with the Moving of the Stuff

[John Wilger]

Hopefully for the last time, there's a lot of reorganization going on with the infrastructure for this project. I've always been hosting most of the project on a dedicated server that I leased, but I'm planning to get rid of the server, so I needed to find a new place to host the subversion repository and project blog. Also, we've decided to use third-party, hosted applications where possible in order to reduce the maintenance overhead of the project.

To that end, I've moved the project over to Google Code and the weblog is now hosted here on Blogger. This means the subversion repository is now located at http://explainpmt.googlecode.com/svn.

We decided to host the project on Google Code instead of Rubyforge (where we've been making release packages available) for a couple of reasons. The biggest reason is that Rubyforge only seems to allow commit access to the repository via svn+ssh—this caused problems with some developers who were behind corporate firewalls. The second reason is that it doesn't seem right to consider eXPlainPMT a "Ruby" project. Sure, it's written using Ruby on Rails; but its utility is much more general. It's our hope that moving the project to Google Code will signify that we have ambitions higher than just being an interesting Rails project—we want eXPlainPMT to be an interesting project because of its utility.

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Posted By John Wilger to eXPlainPMT at 8/06/2007 02:22:00 PM