Being able to manage a collection of repositories via the web is handy for both departmental servers and public ones.
Requirements
Features for a web interface:
- ability to register user and passwords for htaccess
- ability to reset passwords
User and admin capabilities:
- initialize or clone new repositories
- edit existing repositories
- change password
- change email address
Repo administration:
- delete repo
- verify
- rollback
- strip
- set description
- set notify addresses
- set allowed users for push (default owner-only)
- set default web encoding? (UTF-8)
- set per-repo message of the day
Implementation
A good approximation of this idea is freehg.org. The source hg repository is here (by Matthew Marshall).
Currently unavailable or not functioning properly. -- PaulBoddie 2010-02-10 14:04:57
Discussion
why are you not using edgewall trac, e.g.:
auth plugin allowing to register and change pwd in htpasswd, htgroupsplugin htgroups plugin, svnauthz groups plugin
trac bazaar plugin, especially bazaar plugin with branches, source here as a base? -- SoloTurn
Because we're not building anything that looks remotely like a Trac site. -- mpm
the idea was more in the sense of a "trac plugin" which looks like you design it. everything else is there. what problem do you have with trac as you try to reinvent the wheel here? -- SoloTurn