Hi, JabberStudio[0] is currently used for two things in the Jabber community :
- It is a directory of Jabber-related projects, not all hosted on JabberStudio. A kind of Freshmeat[1] for Jabber. - It is a sourceforge-like place to develop Jabber projects, providing web space, CVS repository, etc. Those are two different needs, and I don't think JabberStudio really suits well neither of them. - The classification provided by JabberStudio is quite poor (only one tree, while it would be interesting to classify using license, platform, language, etc ... as well as library/client/server/etc.) - Not all projects are registered on JabberStudio. - Regarding project management, JabberStudio is poorly documented, and misses most of its competitors features (SCM repository for web page, SVN repositories, better bug reporting tool, etc, etc, etc). Proposal : Instead of one website for two needs, let's split it accross two websites : - One Freshmeat[1]-like website for Jabber, where every developer could register his project and announce new releases. Info for each project should include : - name - homepage - developer - short summary - license - category (server/client/library/component/etc) - platform (Windows/Linux) - graphical environment (if applicable) - language - ... Freshmeat[1] looks like the perfect example of this kind of website. Also, stuff like a RSS feed for new releases would be a good thing. I don't know of any software providing this kind of things, but it should already exist. - A Sourceforge-like website for Jabber, which could be called JabberForge for example. We don't need to write our own : there are at least Savanne[2] and GForge[3] providing easy setup of this kind of things. They don't require much time for administrators, are quite well documented, and properly supported. [0] http://www.jabberstudio.org/ [1] http://freshmeat.net/ [2] https://gna.org/projects/savane/ [3] http://gforge.org/ Any comments ? -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev
