We’re hard at work improving Gitorious this fall. In addition to developing the actual software we’re also making it a lot easier to get started with Gitorious.
So, today we’re launching a proper home page for the open source Gitorious project at getgitorious.com. We’re also rolling out a simplified Gitorious installer which makes it a snap to set up Gitorious on a standard server environment.
getgitorious.com
Previously, new adopters of Gitorious have been forced to jump straight to the code and wiki at gitorious.org. As of now, the Gitorious project home will instead be getgitorious.com.
This new project page will let new adopters instantly find installation methods, prebuilt Gitorious VMs, links to documentation, FOSS hosting on gitorious.org et cetera. We’re going to update our own webpages to link to http://getgitorious.com and we encourage you to do the same.
As mentioned earlier we’re also working on a new, consolidated and updated Gitorious documentation, which will be made available at getgitorious.com/documentation as we complete sections of it. It will deprecate parts of the gitorious.org/gitorious wiki pages and provide more up to date instructions than all the current guides and blog posts floating around on the web.
New, simplified installation
One of the strengths of Gitorious is that it’s open source, fully transparent, and consists of parts which you can mix, match and tweak to fit your own organization or team needs.
Unfortunately, setting it all up manually is not trivial and new Gitorious adopters often struggle with it. We figured it should be much, much easier to get started if you just need something standard up and going, so we’ve created a simplified Gitorious installer for CentOS servers (Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora support coming later).
By using the installer you can have a fresh Gitorious installation up and running within half an hour. The new installation procedure boils down to the following four commands:
yum install git git clone git://gitorious.org/gitorious/ce-installer.git cd ce-installer ./install
At getgitorious.com/installer you’ll find both the text and video walkthrough, including an FAQ. Here’s the video walkthrough of the installation process:
Please let us know what you think!
As always we love feedback: what else do you feel we could do to make Gitorious even easier to get started with?
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> We’re also rolling out a simplified Gitorious installer
The link is broken.
Fixed, thanks!
In the meanwhile this can be used for Debian/Ubuntu:
https://github.com/rosenfeld/gitorious-cookbooks
the link is not broken, it’s misspelled.
*cough* ‘s your own product, guys!
@George: thanks – I’ve just updated the link. Embarrasing :-)
It’s awesome that you’re finally making it easier to install this – but my vote is take this one step further, and also create installer packages, such as .deb and .rpm.
I would love having Gitorious available in an official repo!
+1
It’s a lot easier to do upgrades and all once on an officially supported packaging solution.
I agree, I’d love to see Gitorious in the official repositories, and will gladly help out anyone who wants to give this a shot.
+100 !
This installs an old version, and contains locally modified files (db/schema.rb and db/seeds.rb) and some other files that should be ignored that break an upgrade. Frustrating.
I’d also mention that this does a “yum erase -y ruby rubygems” on your system! This could be *disasterous*! It will, at a minimum, also remove puppet which is really frustrating.
We are going to update and improve the ce installer/puppet recipe this week to include the latest version of Gitorious and we are in the process of improving a few other things as well. I’ll post an update to the blog once it’s available. Thanks for your input!