Due to a power shutdown for work in the machine room hosting the CCPForge server on 16/17 February 2013 we have to shut down CCPForge.

The shutdown will start at 1600 (GMT) on Friday 15th February and, if everything goes to plan, CCPForge will restart at 0830 (GMT) on Monday 18th.

We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.

David Worth
CCPForge Admin Team

Work is taking place tomorrow (Tuesday 19/06/12) to replace a router at the Rutherford Appleton Labratory site (home of CCPForge). This will mean a loss of access to CCPForge.

The work will start at 08:00 and the Lab networking team hope to finish by 10:00. If a problem arises and there is a guaranteed resolution in sight, work will go on until 12:00.

Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
 
Regards,

David Worth
CCPForge Admin Team

Dear CCPForge users The underlying GForge software has been updated to version 6 and so we plan to upgrade CCPForge to this version on Wednesday 18 April 2012. CCPForge will be out action from 8:00 AM (GMT) on that day and will be back by 17:00 (GMT) on Thursday 19 April. New features that GForge 6 provides can be found at http://gforgegroup.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/new-features-in-gforge-6-0/. Regards David Worth CCPForge Administrator

The recently funded new CCP for tomographic imaging software (CCPI) has joined CCPForge. They are planning to make use of the source code control systems offered by CCPForge to facilitate collaboration on their software development between groups at the University of Manchester and the University of Bath.

The use of CCPForge has been highlighted in an blog post (http://software.ac.uk/blog/2011-10-13-save-scientific-legacy-code) for the UK's Software Sustainability Institute. Describing the work on a "molecular physics" code the post identified the use of Subversion to control the source code, and, more importantly, the collaboration between "members of the development team and the software’s users" as particular strengths of CCPForge. Here's hoping for more mentions! David

As you know CCPForge is supported by EPSRC through a service level agreement (SLA) with the Computational Science and Engineering Department of STFC. EPSRC are currently reviewing the computational support offered by the Department (which is mostly based at Daresbury Laboratory). As part of this they have commissioned a Customer Satisfaction Survey to which your views on the CCPForge service should contribute. The link to the survey is http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/epsrc/csedsla and it should only take approximately 10 minutes to complete. If you could find the time to give your views I would be very grateful and if there are other members of your project who could give feedback the please pass this request on the them. The survey ends on 26 Sept 2011. Regards David Worth CCPForge Administrator

Dear CCPForge User There will be a power outage for the building housing the CCPForge server over the weekend of 9/10 April 2011. I would like to use this opportunity to attempt an installation of GForge Advanced Server for CCPForge and so will shutdown CCPForge at 12pm GMT on Friday 8th April. CCPForge will be back at 08:30 GMT on Monday 11 April. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience David Worth CCPForge Admin Team

We have been told that the work that necessitated the power shut down on December 10-13 2010 was unsuccessful and another shut down is required. The work will happen on the weekend of 22/23 January 2011. Therefore CCPForge will be offline from 4pm on Friday 21 Jan to 8:30 am on Monday 24 Jan 2011. I apologise for any problems that this may cause. Regards David Worth CCPForge Admin Team

This is advance notice of a break in the CCPForge service on 11 and 12 of December. The power to the building in which the CCPForge servers are kept will be off for these 2 days to enable the replacement of the main electrical circuit breakers. CCPForge will be shut down at 4pm on Friday 10 December and restarted at 8:30am on Monday 13 December. I apologise for any problems that this may cause. Regards David Worth CCPForge Admin Team

User registration has been made a little more open. New users can click the 'Register New Account' link at the top right and fill in their details and click the Submit button. Registrations will then be checked by CCPForge administrators before accounts are created to monitor the incidence of spam registrations. Regards David Worth CCPForge Admin Team

As you may have noticed CCPForge has been upgraded to GForge Community Edition 5.7. In the background we also upgraded the server machine and operating system. All existing data has been migrated with the exception of the wiki material due to incompatibility between the old and new wikis. Project administrators should check the data and permissions on their projects and users should log-in and check their own data. If there are any problems or queries then please e-mail gforgeadm@ccpforge.cse.rl.ac.uk. Regards David Worth CCPForge Admin Team

Despite recent measures to stop spamming of the CCPForge server with spurious accounts a number have still got through. For this reason account registration has been changed. We now require an e-mail request to the site administration at mailto://gforgeadm@ccpforge.cse.rl.ac.uk . Please include your academic affiliation and a proposed username in the e-mail - if either are missing then the account will not be created. The requesting e-mail address will be used to set up the account and for all communication from CCPForge. I am sorry that we have had to put these measures in place but they are necessary at present for the continued running of the service. Regards David Worth CCPForge Admininstrator

We have now put in place anti-spam measures on the user registration page and it is once again possible to create new accounts. CCPForge Admin Team

Due to spamming of the system with fake user accounts the registration of new users has been suspended. We are working to clear the system and will re-open registration as soon as possible. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience. CCPForge Admin Team

Following a request from the GAMESS-0UK project I have implemented searching of mailing list archives. It uses swish-e (http://www.swish-e.org/index.html) to index the archives and do the searching from a web page. All archives pages now have a link called "Search this list" that takes the user to a search page. I hope other projects find it useful. David Worth CCPForge Administrator

Dear CCPForge users, The Network administrators at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (home of CCPForge) have advised us of possible network disruption on July 7th. It is therefore likely that CCPForge will be unavailable for some periods during the morning. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience. David Worth CCPForge Administrator =========================== Original Message =========================== This is advanced notice that there will be a series of short, site-wide network interruptions across the RAL site on the morning of Tue 7th July, occurring sometime between 7am and 10am. This is due to urgent and essential maintenance work which needs to be carried out by the site’s central network team. You will experience two (or possibly three) short interruptions of about 10 -15 mins each while this work is done, sometime within this time window, but unfortunately they are unable to be more precise about the exact timings.

Yes, I know I should have posted this long ago but just in case you didn't realise the CCPForge service can be considered to be in full production.

As you will be aware is now available for use by software developers within the CCPs. It is intended to be easy to use for software users, developers and administrators but in order to help things along in the initial stages we have organised a workshop at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on Friday 30 March. It will take the form of a demonstration of CCPForge and then time will be available for participants to use the system with help available on hand. We would also like to take this opportunity to talk about the Software Engineering Support Program, what it is and how it can help CCP software developers. We have a number of tools available for software quality measurement and time will be available to use them on the participants own code. A preliminary agenda for the day is given below. We have space for 8 participants on a first come, first served basis. Anyone wishing to take part in the workshop should contact David Worth (d.j.worth@rl.ac.uk) so details can be arranged...(see more)

Great news! CCPForge is now available outside CCLRC! Developers in the CCPs can start to use it to host their projects, collaborate on development and distribute code to their users. Regards CCPForge Admin Team

To test the backup and mirroring regime for CCPForge the site should be considered "at risk" until further notice. This means changes you make in your project may go missing as we swap servers and reboot machines. Sorry for any inconvenience.

A CCPForge Workshop will be held on Wednesday 18 October at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The aim is to present the current status of the CCPForge site and discus how the project should continue for the remainder of the year. A proposed agenda for the workshop would be: 10:30 Welcome and introductions 10:45 Review of requirements from Requirements Workshop in March 11:00 Demonstration of CCPForge and discussion of features 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Continue dicusssion and create timetable for the remainder of the project 15:00 Close If you wish to attend this meeting then please contact David Worth (d.j.worth@rl.ac.uk) or Chris Greenough (c.greenough@rl.ac.uk) by the end of Thursday 12 October. David

Project admins can now upload a small number of multimedia files (e.g. for screenshots) for their projects. In the Admin tab for a project there is an "Edit Multimedia Data" option. Click it and you find a page where you can add multimedia files (total limit is 1MB). When files are added, this page contains a table summarising the files and you can get URLs for the files from here. These URLs can be used in the project's long description (Admin Tab - Edit Public Info) using html markup, e.g. <img src="http://ccpforge.cse.rl.ac.uk/dbimage.php?id=1">

We have added a wiki plugin to the site. This means projects can create wiki pages for their applications to provide screenshots, citations or any other information that may be of interest to users. Project admins can enable the wiki pages via the Admin tab of their project and choosing "Edit Public Info". Then select "Use Wiki Plugin" in the "Active Features" section. For details on using a wiki take a look at http://ccpforge.cse.rl.ac.uk/plugins/wiki/index.php?HowToUseWiki&id=6&type=g

The CCPForge site has been upgraded to use GForge version 4.5.11. This is primarily a bug fix release although a new "Advanced Search" feature has been added within projects.

I have upgraded subversion from 1.1.4 to 1.3.1 to fix a bug in viewing file revisions in a subversion repository via the SCM tab. If this has broken anything then please submit a bug using the 'Bug Tracker' link on the main page.

I have implemented longer project descriptions to be shown on the project summary page. The short descriptions are still required for project registration but longer descriptions (that may include HTML) can be added from the project admin page by clicking Edit Public Info. If the longer description is not present the short description will be used on the summary page.

I have implemented a longer project description to be displayed on the project summary page. The short description is still req

All projects using Subversion for SCM may now use the SVNTracker plugin. SVNTracker reviews all commits in a project and searches for a specific string to know which task or tracker item is related. This string is of the form: [#NNN] for Tracker, and [TNNN] for Tasks. Example: $ svn commit -m "This patch will solve a problem on Bug [#123] and closes task [T344]." Then, in the task or tracker detail page, a log will appear with links to the involved files. Project admins can use the "Edit Public Info" page to activate the tracker for their project.