This was a useful reply by Jim that I should forward to the list for everyone's benefit... I have a feeling I may get complaints about my reply-to header (I didn't really follow any of the 40 threads on it), I have one reponse: Suck it up.
Michael. On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 20:16, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On Jul 13, 2004, at 7:31 PM, Michael wrote: > > How do you qualify to get something on sourceforge? > > Simple enough. Just describe the project, give it a unique name, and > promise to use an OSI license for it. Takes about a day or so for the > project pages to be put together, although they quote up to a week. > > Savannah will host a GPL-compatible project, and there are a few other > code repositories out there too. > > The problem is that there are so many projects that cover the same > ground, it's difficult to see when something of yours might get taken > up, if the repository was your only listing method. Perhaps a big "This > Project Is Not Abandoned, It's Finished To My Initial Requirements" > notice might help ... :-) > > -jim > > > > > Michael. > > > > On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:08, steve wrote: > >> ... that people can dump projects that they think may be of some use > >> to > >> other members? Is there any interest? Joint development, or is that > >> mainly in the Netherlands? > >> > >> For example, I've written a q+d php program that adds your cd to a > >> database... just waits for a cd/cross references against cddb/write > >> title,tracks etc to MySQL db/spews it out and waits for another one. > >> Useful if you ever get all your CD's stolen ( which was both why I > >> wrote > >> it, and the reason I left the UK ): > >> > >> ? > >> > >> Steve > >> > > > > > > >
