July 27, 2006

GoogForge

Greg Stein announced at OSCON earlier today that Google are going to be doing free software project hosting. They'll supply a Subversion repository, backed by their Bigtable storage engine (rather than BDB or FSFS) plus a new, simplified bug tracker which uses good search and tagging as a substitute for having lots of fields, and of course a clean, AJAX-y interface. No further details yet...

Posted by gerv at July 27, 2006 11:12 PM
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I've already got a project listed: shareboard. Of course, I don't have any code yet.... (blushes)

Posted by: Step at July 28, 2006 2:07 PM

So, does this have any bearing on Bugzilla? Probably not, but Bugzilla's usability could maybe take some hints toward this project.

Posted by: Todd at July 31, 2006 3:08 PM

I think it's interesting that it arrived at the same time as a proposal to make Bugzilla more complex by getting it to understand the notion of "branches" and to fork bugs or their fields for different branches. I'm sure there is a better way.

Posted by: Gerv at August 7, 2006 3:55 PM