I love the Savane codebase and Savannah as a project infrastructure. If it were at all possible to accomplish this GDN under Savannah, that would not only be a natural match but perhaps encourage GNU coders to move from places like GitHub and house their GNU projects under Savannah instead.
Cheers. - Christian Bryant Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -----Original Message----- From: Rudolf <[email protected]> Sender: libreplanet-discuss-bounces+tomsitprocb=gmail.com@libreplanet.orgDate: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 00:08:51 To: Brandon Invergo<[email protected]> Cc: David Gumberg<[email protected]>; libreplanet-discuss<[email protected]> Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] RFC: GNU Developer Network on libreplanet.org This definitely sounds doable and might revitalize the GNU standards. The key thing is convincing other GNU developers to contribute if possible. It would be nice to see more developers referring to the coding standards of the gnu project and striving to become part of the umbrella. On Jul 4, 2013 8:53 PM, "Brandon Invergo" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I hope this is the right place to bring this up. > > I'm a member of the GNU Advisory Board and we are considering the > possibility of setting up a GNU Developer Network. Developer Networks > can take many forms but in general they provide a central place for > developers to find documentation, tutorials and other information > related to software development, as well as the opportunity to discuss > and interact with other developers. > > We considered some ready-made software for this, such as the one Mozilla > uses for their network, but we determined that it would not be feasible > to maintain it. After weighing our options, we felt that it would be > best for us to try to take advantage of infrastructure that we already > have. rms suggested that we could use the LibrePlanet wiki. A wiki > would be a good fit for the kind of activity that would go on in a dev > network, so it seems like a good suggestion to me. > > So, I come to you with the proposal that we carve out a corner of the LP > wiki for a developer network. What do you think about this as a general > idea? Are there any specific technical or other practical > considerations that we must make? Are you opposed to something that > would (ideally) end up consisting of many pages? I know that it's a > community site but since this is a large undertaking, it's better to get > community (and sysadmin) approval first. And lastly, is there anyone > who is interested in joining in on this? > > There are is a practical concern that we have. How does LibrePlanet > moderate its content, since everything is user-generated? We could not > support, for example, people recommending proprietary software in the > developer network. Likewise, we would have to be careful that people > aren't calling the system "Linux" and that they are aware that we are > developing free, not "open source", software. > > I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this! > > Cheers, > Brandon > > ps - please include David (CC'ed) in replies; he is helping me out with > this and I'm not sure that he is subscribed to the list. > > -- > Brandon Invergo > http://brandon.invergo.net >
