hi,

you can now grab some cleverbox support on IRC ! Come and visit us at #cleverbox on irc.freenode.net. I’m known as “mbertier” out there. See you soon…

hi,

cleverbox latest stable version in now 0.4.4. What does it bring ? Not much, except that installation now involves less steps.

debian users, please note : you’ll get a “bad gpg” warning when updating, that’s because I forgot my gpg passphrase… please don’t hate me too much.

as usual, sources can be obtained from http://www.clever-age.org/trac/wiki/cleverbox/downloads

This one is aimed at Debian Etch users : it will make easier to install and use the cleverbox for them, as it’s now impossible to run it along with the buggy trac-0.10.3.
This is should be the last release of the 0.4 branch, and i’m now focusing on the 0.5 branch.

Hey everyone,

Here’s the new Cleverbox. It introduces :

• a better default configuration profile. It provides three services for each project : “trac”, “subversion” and “documents” (a webdav share). All services share the same file based authentication backend.
• .deb packaging. apt-get install cleverbox. yey !

The full changelog is available at http://www.clever-age.org/trac/wiki/cleverbox#a2008-02-240.4.2-beta

Please note : there’s a nasty bug in trac-0.10.3 that prevent the cleverbox from working. Unfortunately, that’s the version of Trac you’ill find in Debian Etch. So you’ll have either to upgrade the Trac package or install it from sources.

I’ll eventually release a workaround in cleverbox-0.4.3 or cleverbox-0.5, depending on whichever comes first

Enjoy !

I’m glad to announce this important milestone : cleverbox-0.4 is the first public release, and is licensed under an open-source license (GPL3). It’s also the first project to be published on the brand new clever-age.org.

What is the cleverbox ?

The cleverbox provides an interactive command line shell dedicated to the deployment and maintenance of trac and subversion instances.

It can handle multiple configuration profiles, enabling the deployment of differently flavored type of project (trac configuration and permissions, apache configuration templates, etc).

Project’s main objective is to make your life as simple as possible. Thus, it comes with easy installation, easy upgrades and a comprehensive documentation.

Is it stable enough for production use ?

Despite being marked as “beta”, the project can be safely used in production :

• the projects its based on are stable : python, subversion, trac
• it’s been used daily here at Clever Age for more than two years. It now handles approximatively 150 trac / svn instances
• as of version 0.3, each release comes (if needed) with automated upgrade scripts

No future ?

On the contrary, the community is continuously growing and a clear roadmap has been established :

• cleverbox-0.4.2 : maintenance release.
• cleverbox-0.5 : creation of a (simple) domain for the application, and enable all operations to be performed without human interaction. This will open the way for the development of other frontends (web, etc).
• cleverbox-0.6 : refactoring the cleverbox to the “command” design pattern, while providing an unchanged level of functionnality.
• cleverbox-0.7 : building on the previous refactoring : atomic operations and extensible command set.

Interested ?

Please come and visit project’s official website and subscribe to the mailing list. Patches, bug reports and feature requests will be warmly welcomed !