From: Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:56:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] codeBeamer MR - Easy ACL for Git
Message-ID: <2e24e5b90911192056t706071ble163a53741017ef@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B054D0A.5030802@intland.com>

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Intland Software <marketing@intland.com> wrote:
> Petr Baudis wrote:
>>
>> I think a lot of people wonder now, how does this compare to existing
>> solutions; from your announcement I thought it's something like
>> Gitosis/Gitolite, but in fact it seems more similar to Gitorious or
>> GitHub (if it was publicly available, of course); perhaps it would be
>
> All right, some quick comparisons with codeBeamer Managed Repository (MR).
>
> * MR against Gitosis

I think you meant "versus" :-)

> In terms of access control, MR has the concept of "role", and it makes our
> security model more fine grained. Permissions can be set by role. One user
> account can have multiple roles. Roles are project-dependent. When you add a
> group to a project, you can assign multiple roles to the group (which is
> equivalent with assigning those roles to each group member one by one).
> On the other hand, MR has a much broader scope than Gitosis. MR helps you to
> manage your repos, to track your tasks/bugs/issues, to follow commit
> activities, to browse repos in the web, can be extended using its APIs, etc.
> (And you don't have to install and maintain Git extensions for this.)

> * MR against Gitolite
> Pretty much the same applies here as well.

Conceptually, gitolite can do the roles stuff you mentioned,
if I understood it correctly.  Of course, gitolite's access
config is in plain text.

The web-based control, issue tracking, etc., are all on a
different plane from what gitosis/gitolite aim to be.  So
much so that I might even disagree with Pasky on the need to
mention these two products in your website.  Here's one
perspective (in round figures):

gitolite:   1600 lines of shell+perl, 1600 lines of doc
gitosis:    3300 lines of python
MR:         150 MB binary download

I don't honestly see any way to even *begin* to compare :-)

You should stick to gitorious, github, and -- here's a new
one for you -- indefero.

-- 
Sitaram