Our intent isn't to be a judge of "who owns the name" or not; we simply wanted to prevent Evil People from doing land-grabs of well-recognized project names (back when we first launched our project hosting service.) It could have been a real disaster for the opensource community if a popular project suddenly had two different sites (one real, one fake) each claiming to be the "project home".
That said, we launched over 2.5 years ago, so the land grab is probably over. Maybe it's time to rethink this automated name-protection. :-) Meanwhile, I've unblocked your project-creation lockout; that's just an anti-spambot measure. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Moti Ben-Ari <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to create 5 projects for educational software that I have > developed. > I created 3 successfully, but I am currently locked out for the other two > because > of the 24 hour limit. I'm not sure from when you are counting 24 hours! > Could you please release this? I don't plan on creating more than these 5 > projects > in the foreseeable future, well under the 10 project limit. > > Two of my projects were rejected because of name conflicts with sourceforge. > One of them (daj) has been released, but the other (jspin) has not. I have > corresponded > with the author of the latter who has agreed to release it as the > sourceforge project > never had any files uploaded and he is currently using another name. (I can > forward his > message, but I'd rather not do it on an open forum.) > > As a personal opinion, while I agree that warning about a conflict is a good > idea, > I don't think that the owner of a sourceforge name should have veto power > over > a name on google code. In my case, I can document publication of my names > _prior_ to their use on sourceforge. Why should publication in sourceforge > be > considered as more important than publication in professional literature > like the ACM digital library??!! I don't think that google should set itself > up > as a judge of these matters. > > Thanks > > Moti > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
