On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 11:00:55AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:37 am, Diego Iastrubni wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Here are my non educated and random thoughts: > > > > 1) Making a CVS/SVN/whatever server is not enough. Each project needs also > > a bugzilla, and a ML or a forum. > > Well, a mailing list is not an issue - I can easily create one with ezmlm. If > setting up a forum means setting PHP-BB or something similar, than it's not > an issue as well, because I've done it before. Bugzilla does not seem to be > too intimidating either. > > In any case, I think the most critical thing here is the version control > system. Sites like SourceForge, BerliOS or Savannah can easily give hosting > to mailing lists, forums, a web site, a bug-tracker (not bugzilla > unfortunately, but still better than nothing), etc. > > > We need to host also a small site for each > > project, which will have multiple downloads. This setup is not as trivial > > as you think. Will you be able to support this for the next year or 2? > > > > I'd rather start with hosting some Subversion repositories and then see where > we go on from there. Let's kill one cow at a time. > > > 2) The size problem is much bigger then you think. What kind of proejcts > > will you host? Maybe someone will come with a new php/nuke localized > > version ? with patches and versions, and downloadable versions, it will > > take much more then you think. We cannot backup the projects, which is > > another problem. > > > > It's true that we cannot backup the projects. However, we can store the > repositories' dumps somewhere, so people can backup them themselves. (using > rsync or HTTP or whatever). I will host most small to medium sized projects. > I don't expect eskimo to be adequate for something like the GIMP... ;-)
Again, Shlomi: what can we provide that can't be provided better by SourceForge, Berlios, Savanah, and Sunside.dk ? I don't know if any of them already provides Subversion, but CVS is not that much worse. And one can always turn elsewhere to get a Subversion server. Alternatively, you may want to provide just subversion services, because SF doesn't provide it yet. > > How abuout FreeDOS? it's stable and usable. ReactOS is installable under > > QEMU, but not really usable. Tested it a few months ago, and it's a shiny > > toy, nothing more. Nice, and not too big. > > FreeDOS may be stable and usable, but I don't think it's in the interest of > the general public. DOS, nowadays, is mostly used for things like embedded > software, or hardware testing, and for running legacy applications. Very few > people will use it for their desktop system. Besides, it's probably not such > a big download. > > > > > 4) A contrib mirror for Mandrake is a good idea, since we have all other > > MDK content in IGLU. This is the only piece missing (maybe cooker). > > > > Right. Me too. I'd give cotrib a higher priority. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+
