This is SO great: Apple has gotten on the cluetrain and deployed Mac OS Forge, a source control and issue tracking system for various open-source Apple projects, including Darwin. This isn’t just a place to download sourcecode and a one-way bug entry system– this is a full-blown, vanilla deployment of Trac, sitting on top of an SVN server! This is such great news. I’m sure Apple will find that they only benefit from this degree of transperancy and interaction with developers.
And as an added treat, we can see that in addition to their two existing open source projects, darwin and webkit, they are opening up a few more projects– a calendering server, launchd, and bonjour. Nice!
At ibiblio I’m in charge of an svn/trac service that we are eventually going to open for business. Everything is set up and we could go forward with it today, but I am patiently waiting for Trac 0.10 to be released. It has a smattering of features that will be nice to have when managing several or dozens of projects, such as spam control, web administration, and most importantly, mysql instead of sqlite.
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