Charles McNulty wrote:
Jon Daley wrote:
I believe there have been a half dozen offers for hosting
subversion (myself included). Thomas or Charles wrote back to me and
said thanks, but it wasn't needed, and that they expected to switch
to SF's svn at some point. And since I now mirror the cvs tree in
subversion for keeping my own local revisions merged, I offered to
publicize that, but that was also turned down.
Well, wasn't me, so it must have been Thomas, but from my perspective
I definitely prefer a hosting provider such as sourceforge as opposed
to a volunteer no matter how dedicated or experienced they are. The
advantages of sourceforge are that 1) They won't burn out from all the
work associated with hosting 2) They won't decide to stop hosting over
disagreement with the direction of the project or personality
disagreements. 3) redundancy in terms of personel. In other words if
the volunteer hosting the project is abducted by aliens, we'd be up
the crick.
Now obviously sf.net has some serious problems. I don't know how a
hardware problem could possibly in a million years lead to a month of
downtime. And I can't imagine how sf.net imagines that this is
acceptable. I'd be open to moving to something else like sf.net
(perhaps savannah.org) or switching to svn, but there are too many
potential pitfalls to handing off hosting to a volunteer, IMO.
While that is totally understandable, and I do agree, you should
understand peoples frustrations since RoundCube is such a very promising
project.
The only solution, although not in RC's favor, is that it is branched by
someone who does have the capacity to provide reliable development
services to people who are submitting patches or want access to bleeding
edge code so as to make patches as well as have proper bug tracking.
SourceForge is great, but it leaves a lot to be desired and there are
also many other tools which allow people to be more productive than the
in-house SF systems.
If you're willing at all to hear peoples donations in terms of hosting
and repo, perhaps it would be at least worthwhile for people to put
their whole offer on the table.
--
Colin Alston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.karnaugh.za.net/
"There have been hacker forums where, out of some misguided sense of hyper-courtesy,
participants are banned from posting any fault-finding with another's posts, and told
''Don't say anything if you're unwilling to help the user.'' The resulting departure of
clueful participants to elsewhere causes them to descend into meaningless babble and
become useless as technical forums." - Eric Steven Raymond
