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Thanks for sharing such great thinking below, Andreas. Gitlab is super for DevSecOps.</div>
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https://about.gitlab.com<br>
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NPS has a gitlab server at gitlab.nps.edu that we have used to good effect. Agreed that it appears to have numerous features, we have only used a few but with excellent results.</div>
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The Savage model library is both public, maintained in gitlab for version control, and published separately on a different server. Essentially it is an active archive for a bunch of models produced by NPS students and partners over the years. It is separate,
but maintained identically, as all of the Web3D Consortiums model libraries found in X3D Examples Archives on SourceForge. All of the X3D QA validation and production tests are comprehensively applied for offline regression checking.</div>
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<div>Savage X3D Examples Archive</div>
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<div class="elementToProof">The NPS Scenario Authoring and Visualization for Advanced Graphical Environments (SAVAGE) Research Group maintains a large archive of dynamic 3D military models and authoring tools, all open source and built using Extensible 3D (X3D)
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<div class="elementToProof">X3D Resources: Examples: Scene Archives for X3D</div>
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Suggested important functionality for addition to gitlab: ability to render .x3d/.x3dv/.wrl models directly when inspecting them on the server. Such capability already exists for .stl files, for example</div>
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https://gitlab.nps.edu/Savage/Savage/-/blob/master/ShipsMilitary/CorvetteMinutemenClassUnitedStates/MinutemenHull.STL<br>
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Here at NPS, our team will be happy to match and second-check and test whatever rendering or CI/CD or other functionality you might want to pursue. We will configure our gitlab.nps.edu server accordingly, for Savage models archive, as such best practices emerge.</div>
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Regarding long-term activity, what you describe below seems appropriate and likely interesting for Web3D Consortium to support. Nicholas and Anita are working hard at SIGGRAPH this week and doubtless will be available for further discussion. Engaging Casey
Gomez and the new X3D Ecosystem group is also important. Each are copied in this message.</div>
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<div class="elementToProof">The X3D Ecosystem Special Interest Group (SIG) brings together industry and 3D graphics expertise to improve the deployment X3D in real-time interactive 3D worlds.</div>
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When planning a new project, it is always worthwhile to consider "assume success, then what?" Will X3D integration with gitlab scale up? Hmmm.</div>
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Looking forward to continued progress for everyone together. Have fun with X3D! 🙂</div>
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, July 29, 2024 8:26 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> X3D Graphics public mailing list <x3d-public@web3d.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> x3dom mlist <x3dom-users@lists.sourceforge.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [x3dom-users] gitlab x3d resources group</span>
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under a personal gitlab account (perhaps mine).<br>
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The background is that I am contemplating using gitlab for static site<br>
hosting, for x3dom related material such as development releases,<br>
documentation, an x3d viewer/in browser editor or a gltf viewer. These<br>
materials are currently hosted under my personal github account at<br>
andreasplesch.github.io but I would like to move away from using that.<br>
Unfortunately, github only allows one account per user or organization<br>
so I cannot in good faith just create another github account (say<br>
x3dom-unoffiicial).<br>
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Gitlab is similar to github but has more powerful project management<br>
features even for the free tier. Gitlab also only allows one user per<br>
account (I believe) but each account can have multiple roots or<br>
"groups" which themselves then can contain multiple repos. For<br>
example, I may create an x3dom-unofficial group under my account. If<br>
used for static website hosting, a corresponding url would be<br>
x3dom-unofficial.gitlab.io from which then x3dom related materials<br>
could be served. "x3dom-resources" could become another group. Gitlab<br>
groups are collaborative with assigned owner, maintainer, developer,<br>
user and other roles for invited collaborators.<br>
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It is therefore natural to expand on this idea and think about a<br>
larger "x3d-resources" or similar gitlab group, used as an option for<br>
hosting of any x3d related resource. The main benefit would perhaps be<br>
to have the option to share a common url for diverse resources. I<br>
think this could be seen as complementary to web3d hosted material, so<br>
maybe a "web3d-aux" group may be more appropriate. A<br>
x3d-resources.gitlab.io site could then host x3dom related materials<br>
under x3d-resources.gitlab.io/x3dom, for example. Other materials<br>
could be served from similar urls. gitlab also supports forwarding<br>
from a gitlab url to any other url. All gitlab repos can be automated<br>
using ci runners (on gitlab servers). This is crucial since all<br>
maintenance would need to be largely automatic.<br>
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What are your thoughts on "x3d-*" groups on gitlab ? A potential<br>
headache due to a potential for x3d confusion or a valuable option to<br>
perhaps allow for larger participation ?<br>
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Thanks for reading and apologies for the longer than anticipated message.<br>
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-Andreas<br>
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