On 12 November 2010 20:53, Jeff Rogers <dv...@diphi.com> wrote: > I was recently skimming over the book 'Producing Open Source Software" > and it suggests a set of tools that an open source project needs: > - web site > - mailing lists > - version control > - bug tracking > - real-time chat > (from http://producingoss.com/en/technical-infrastructure.html) > > Fossil already has three of these (website, vcs, bug tracking). While I > doubt the fossil maintainers would be interested in bloating fossil by > adding the other two items (mailing list management and real-time chat) > it would be an interesting project (perhaps for a hosting site) to > create a "oss community in a box" based on fossil. (project = fossil > repo + proj...@hosting.site mailing list + proj...@hosting.site jabber MUC). >
It would be a project on its own to make a ML management software that does not suck and advertise it enough so that it is used. Most projects these days use GNU Mailman and like fossil's its web is broken by default and the list management functions also leave some things to be desired. Thanks Michal _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
