Yeah, expose helps, but in the end this isn't something like "A Content Management System". If people are going to find this at all, they already know what they are looking for. I did put in some effort to make sure the name is sufficiently unique. Or 'googlable', or whatever the kids are calling it these days. But, fair point. Better pagerank is a good thing.
On Jul 14, 2:35 pm, Straun <[email protected]> wrote: > As an open source project surely you must rate exposure to your > community as highly desirable? > > My only observation is that strangely Google code does not get much > exposure via Google itself, instead projects on SF get the best > exposure. This might be because the page ranking systems rate SF long > standing might above googlecode's fresh faced approach. > > I have yet to see if Kenai does any better. > Good Luck. > > On Jul 14, 12:13 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm looking around for online project hosting, and frankly, I'm not > > really finding the perfect solution. > > > NB: JIRA gets a double negative because it's utterly useless for Joe > > Schmoe who would like to file a bug. You get a massive screen filled > > with bells and whistles, which is just going to scare people away. > > Google Code's home-grown issue tracker, but then without requiring you > > to have a google login, that'd be perfection. > > > kenai: Supports git (++), wiki (+), JIRA or bugzilla as issue tracking > > (--). Bonus: Netbeans integration. > > > github: Supports git (++), wiki (+), useless home-rolled issue tracker > > (--). Bonus: Lots of repository visuals. > > > google code: Only supports hg (-), wiki (+), nice homegrown issue > > tracker (+). Bonus: It's google, so stable under load. > > > sourceforge: Vague sense of being from the 90s (-), Supports git (++), > > no wiki (-), not so nice homegrown issue tracker (-). > > > None of them really convince me. Right now I'm hosting the repository > > and wiki on github, but hosting the downloads and the issue tracker on > > google code. I wonder if that's even allowed on those services. I must > > say I looked at sourceforget only for writing this post and they've > > done quite a job on improving the look. It used to be that your > > average user would get utterly overwhelmed by the vast amount of > > options, almost all of which led to empty pages because project admins > > didn't use any of those niche features. > > > Which ones am I missing (It is an open source project, but if it costs > > a little, that might be okay)? > > > The perfect project hosting: > > > - git support (required) > > - wiki (nice to have) > > - bug tracking that isn't going to scare away a user, and preferably > > doesn't require a user to create an account first (required) > > - hosting some sort of static homepage (nice to have) > > - download section that supports direct linking (required - no user is > > going to navigate a forest to download something) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
