On 09/29/2014 05:41 PM, George Nychis wrote: > Marcus, thanks for keeping up-to-date projects on CGRAN! Since you've > always been actively involved, what would you like to see different and/or > improved? It can still be the place where your projects live, I am just > trying to make CGRAN more friendly to changes in the current community and > to be more supportive of newer projects. The clear example has always been > making it more git-centric.
One of the things I find myself constantly doing for projects on cgran is making manual snapshots. Github has the ability to make a snapshot both for head and for any tags, which has always been very useful. While I don't care if no one wants to use github, or even git for that matter, some form of automatic snapshot for tags and/or revs would be very useful imho. Thanks, Zero_Choas > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Marcus D. Leech <mle...@ripnet.com> wrote: > >> On 09/29/2014 05:31 PM, George Nychis wrote: >> >> Thanks for the feedback, Chris and Martin. What I'm going to do is keep >> CGRAN down until we have some sort of plan/resolution and use it as a form >> of motivation. Every time I've managed to resurrect CGRAN from the dead, I >> just leave it go and forget about it for some time again. I think that the >> down time might help us come to a conclusion sooner. >> >> Several people have e-mailed me about access to the repository. I was >> able to get the repo back up, and it should be anonymously readable here: >> https://www.cgran.org/svn/projects >> >> To address Chris' thoughts, I've always felt CGRAN was useful in two >> aspects: 1) To find useful and up-to-date projects (albeit rare), and 2) >> To find more historical projects that highlight the capabilities of GNU >> Radio and SDRs and to resurrect and/or build from them. I know the latter >> has been a killer, but I've found multiple times that people came to CGRAN >> to dig up old code and build something new from it. But if anything, these >> two types of projects need to be clearly marked and separated. >> Academically, I know that students are very willing to take brutally dead >> code and use pieces of it for projects. >> >> Maintenance over time is simply just difficult. Once projects are >> complete, many people move on but GNU Radio keeps on chugging. I know that >> I lost time to maintain my projects. Pybombs could at least guide the user >> to get correct versions, let them know there is a mismatch, etc. It can >> also provide the link from a project to where the actual code and >> repository are. I think that pybomb entries can point to github locations, >> right? >> >> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Martin Braun <martin.br...@ettus.com> >> wrote: >> >>> This is something that comes up at our dev calls (and other dev meetings) >>> regularly, and we really need to address it sooner rather than later. >>> >>> George, if the support burden is getting to much, we can surely fix a >>> short-term solution by migrating stuff to some temporary location (let's >>> take this specific discussion offline, though). >>> >>> In the future, we'd like to have something that ties in nicely with >>> Pybombs, and also uses the gits. How exactly, that's something we need to >>> decide, and any community input on this is appreciated. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> M >>> >>> I have projects on CGRAN that are actively maintained. Most notably, >> simple-ra. But also, simple_fm_rcv, meteor_detector, multimode, and >> SIDSuite. >> >> While I'm willing to find another place for them, it's, as one might >> expect, a pain.... >> >> >> >> >>> On 29.09.2014 11:01, George Nychis wrote: >>> >>>> The machine that runs CGRAN down in some basement somewhere at Carnegie >>>> Mellon has hit some issues again. Given that I'm no longer at the >>>> university, these issues are becoming harder for me to address. At this >>>> point, it's probably best for CGRAN to "move on" as we've all been in >>>> discussion about over time. >>>> >>>> What I can do if everyone still finds CGRAN useful is: >>>> >>>> 1. Provide a more reliable host and machine for it >>>> 2. Update it to be more useful to the community (e.g., more towards >>>> git) >>>> >>>> It still gets a lot of hits (~16,000 a month) and every time it goes >>>> down people hunt me down and ask when it's coming back up. So it seems >>>> as though the community still uses it. >>>> >>>> I can update it with Pybombs or Gitlib or whatever people feel is >>>> appropriate. It can be more of a portal page even, without a repository >>>> if most people just use Github now anyway. Do people still like it is a >>>> standalone service, or is it better to just "roll it in" to the GNU >>>> Radio webpage somewhere now? I want to do whatever the community finds >>>> is most useful. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> George >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >>>> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >>>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >>> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >>> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing >> listDiscuss-gnuradio@gnu.orghttps://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >> >> >> >> -- >> Marcus Leech >> Principal Investigator >> Shirleys Bay Radio Astronomy Consortiumhttp://www.sbrac.org >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list >> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss-gnuradio mailing list > Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
