So changes are happening, and I’d like to know where you, the community, would like to see these changes take us.
Besides my capabilities in management, which I will get back to later (e.g. by discussing structuring), I would like to discuss the benefits and possibilities that come with having a dedicated server. If you don’t know what a ‘dedicated server’ is (- contrary to a shared one), do a quick read-up.
Do note that we have not yet made the server migration. My intention is to hold off the server migration, moving jMonkeyEngine.com from where it is currently hosted (lunarpages) to a dedicated server (hosteurope), until we know what we want to do with it.
If necessary and wished for, we could literally host everything in direct relation to jME (SVN repos comes to mind) on the one and same server. When talking about the code repo, this means we could consider the use of such complimentary tools as Hudson.
We don’t only have to talk about the ‘big stuff’ though. Forum tweaks (a new board or an added modification perhads?) minor site updates are simple enough to get done at this point already. Bigger visions for changes/additions to the websites will be heard, but likely put on hold until greater essentials are in place.
Just to stir things up a bit, here’s some random things I have had my eyes on: Ivy/Buildr (Maven equivalents) and Bazaar/Mercurial (SVN alternatives).
We should stay with google code. But Hudson would be a great addition to the system, and we could get back to the nightly build routine, and current docs.
I would recommend to leave the svn repo where it is, google does a good job with providing reliable access etc.
I don't see any benefit from moving the repo.
Then we really need a hudson set up to have always fresh builds/javadoc of jme2 and 3.
It would also be great to create a maven repository containing the dependencies which needs to be deployed manually right now. (see lib/mvn-lib-install)
I think the forum is pretty nice as it is now, i wouldn't change that.
i agree with core-dump…
also it would be nice to have a commit notification/mailing list…
yeah i know i could go to the google page and look at changes but it'd be nice if i got a mail saying this or that change was made to subversion…
sometimes i miss changes that happen and if i'm in prototype mode i might not update my source for a week…
it'd be nice to be kept up to date about what is changing with the source…
also i'd think long and hard about adopting any new source control system…
i worked with cvs for nearly a decade and porting to subversion was no trivial matter…
ncomp said:But is this even possible if we leave the repo with Google?
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also it would be nice to have a commit notification/mailing list...
yeah i know i could go to the google page and look at changes but it'd be nice if i got a mail saying this or that change was made to subversion...
sometimes i miss changes that happen and if i'm in prototype mode i might not update my source for a week...
it'd be nice to be kept up to date about what is changing with the source....
don't know to be honest…
hence why i said it would be nice 
There are RSS feeds available:
http://code.google.com/p/jmonkeyengine/feeds
Or email notifications by joining the jmonkeyengine-notification group:
http://groups.google.com/group/jmonkeyengine-notification?hl=en
fantastic…
thank you…
Problem solved ;D We could do greater effort at making lil' "tricks" like these common knowledge though, e.g. by mentioning it in a 'best practices' article.