OsDrawer

We are happy to announce support for Mercurial SCM.
The mercurial.osdrawer.net subdomain has been registered and the "Getting started" wiki page has been updated with instructions as the 'submit project' page on www.osdrawer.net, so if you need a Mercurial SCM repository for your project just choose it from the dropdown box.

The only glitch is that it seems our version of Redmine doesn't support Mercurial in the 'Repository' page, it bails out with the error 'The entry or revision was not found in the repository.'.

We're looking into it, but it's not a serious issue because Mercurial has a very nice Web interface, just point your browser at http://mercurial.osdrawer.net

To the Git users out there: we are working to get Git support ASAP, so stay tuned!

We just created a Twitter account on http://twitter.com/osdrawer
Follow us to get information on what's cooking on OsDrawer.net.

As soon as possible our site will automatically send news and registered projects on Twitter!

What's Planet OsDrawer.net?
You really don't know? It's a blog feed aggregator for all the OsDrawer.net registered users.
Some blog feeds have already been added.

You should login on http://planet.osdrawer.net with your OsDrawer.net credentials and click on the "Add/Edit feeds" link on the top right corner (or click this link which will automatically ask your username and password pair if you are not logged in).

In the "Add/Edit feeds" page you can:

- Choose whether you want to publish your blog posts or not
- Add, edit and delete your feeds.

At this moment blog posts are fetched by a cron job that runs every hour, this means that you won't see your feeds immediately.

OsDrawer has recently came out with a project submission form, available in the main site at www.osdrawer.net
This site is running a custom Django-based application, its authentication system has been integrated with the Redmine users database so you login into www.osdrawer.net with your dev.osdrawer.net username and password pair.

Also, I would like to mention that commits mailing list are not created by default to keep the resources usage low.
If you want such mailing list, you should ask the administrators to create one and set up the SVN repository for you.

I'm very glad to announce that OsDrawer.net projects are now integrated with CIA.vc (http://cia.vc).

The integration is not done automatically, you will have to accomplish these tasks:

1. Register a CIA.vc account at http://cia.vc/account/register/
2. Register your project at http://cia.vc/account/projects/add/ with the same name you used on OsDrawer.net (for example if you registered "My Super Cool Program" on OsDrawer.net, keep the same name on CIA.vc including the spaces)
3. Configure your project on CIA.vc setting the right Subversion URL, for example if your project identifier on OsDrawer.net is "mysupercoolprogram" your Subversion URL is likely to be http://svn.osdrawer.net/mysupercoolprogram
4. Enable the "CIA" checkbox in your OsDrawer.net project settings page.

Now wait our hourly cronjob that will rewrite the post-commit hook and you have done!

We are aware of the OsDrawer.net problems.

Sometimes the Web site is down...

DreamHost said that dev.osdrawer.net was causing the Apache server you are on to run out of available connection slots.

Unfortunately it seems that while dev.osdrawer.net is down, also svn.osdrawer.net is down too!

But dev.osdrawer.net is "just" a Redmine application running on Passenger, so it seems something allowed by the DreamHost shared hosting plan.

We asked for some suggestion to DreamHost, so we're waiting for their reply.
Another option would be to enabled the Private Server but it costs too much money.

Sorry for the downtime!

The new OsDrawer.net 2.0 is up and running for some days now, and some contents are missing after the hosting change and migration.
We haven't forgot to add a Getting Started document and other useful instructions, it's that this requires some time.
The Getting Started document is now available as a wiki page.