[D6] Gitosis

What is this module about?

Gitosis module automates access rights on a set of git repositories managed by Gitosis. It integrates perfectly with Open Atrium, or with any site with Organic Groups module configured.

Each group defines a set of git repositores. Users in a group which have added an ssh key to their account can clone the repositories of that group.

This module adds the following interactions:

• admin/settings/gitosis: allows you to set the url to your gitosis-admin repository.
• When editing a group, a section called Gitosis lets you define git repositories for it.
• When a user edits his account, a section called "SSH Keys" let's her add public keys (thanks to sshkey module).
• There are three drush tasks involved:
  • 'gitosis' is the main task that will update your Gitosis configuration periodically.
  • 'gitosis-load-config' takes your current gitosis.conf and saves it at admin/settings/gitosis > Main configuration.
  • 'gitosis-load-keys' looks for public keys at gitosis's keydir directory and attempts to match them with your users email, adding them if so.

Why did I created it?

I started doing some sysadmin work on top of programming at ideup! and got fed up of very repetitive tasks such as grant me access to this repository or revoke access to all repositories to this guy. We use Open Atrium to manage our projects, and in most of the cases everyone in a group deals with the repositories we created for it in Gitosis, so it made sense to link together Atrium and Gitosis so they could talk to each other automatically.

I could not find anything like it in the Drupal community, so I started working at my Github account a month ago, (early commits can be seen there). After three weeks I moved the project to Drupal.org and got it installed at my company's Open Atrium, were we have 30 users who deal with the repositories, 40 groups and several repositories per group. Within a couple o
f days I improved it enough to reach an stable release. Now I do not have to deal anymore with those anoying tasks!

In which scenarios it can be useful?

Generally in organizations where Drupal is used as a communication tool between groups and there is a considerable amount of git repositories related to each group.

How compatible is it with Drupal?

I wanted this module to run in a Drupal installation with the least dependencies as possible, so right now it works either at a Drupal site with modules Content, Text, Organic Groups and Sshkey enabled, or an Open Atrium with Sshkey module.

Where is it and what is its status?

The module is stable. I am currently writing functional tests for it. The next step will be to create a Drupal 7 version.

The module can be found at http://drupal.org/sandbox/juampy/1154658