Inria GForge Tutorial - slide "Administrating a project"

Prerequisite: Be a project member who has been granted administrator privileges.
By default, the person who initially registers the project is given administrator privileges.

Usage Through the "Project Admin" Page, you are shown with links to different task: Admin, User Permissions, Edit Public Info, Project History, VHOSTS, Post Jobs, Edit Jobs, Edit MultiMedia Data, Database Admin. In particular, this is where you can Enable or disable services for your project Add users to your project and give them roles. Roles control scm access, forum access, etc. Beware Roles are not always very correctly implemented with respect to their descriptions, in particular for private projects. You should experiment before relying on them.

Create news items, forums, mailing lists and trackers.

Project website

Using ssh, you can upload a project website to the gforge servers.

Beware: Any member of your project that is granted shell access to any project on the forge can access the publishing space of your project. Either you trust all members of your project, or you should use Unix rights to restrict access to the owner of the files of the webspace

Note: The "Survey Service" has been disabled from the InriaGForge.; If you need such a service, ask the InriaGForge Administrators