At 12:52 PM -0800 on 2/23/00, Alain Farmer wrote:
>Alain: What does this move entail for you, Anthony. In
>what way is it a PITA? We only have the mere
>beginnings of a web site, a half-dozen FTP accounts,
>and our mail is handled by MetaCard. Besides, I
>thought that the CVS, bugTracking and such would
>appeal to you.
Right now, it involves nothing. That's not what I'm worried about.
Sorry if I did not come off clearly. But if we go with SourceForge, use
their CVS, bug tracking, etc., and then need to move months after we
start using it, or after the public on a large scale knows of it, that
is the PITA.
We really have no need to be hasty.
>Anthony: Sourceforge won't do some of the cool things
>we wanted.
>
>Alain: For instance?
News, for example. I know it looks like a _great_ deal, and probably
is. Apache, mailing lists, bug tracking, ssh, ModPHP, CGI, SQL, etc.
Crontabs *drool* But we should at least give minamal consideration to
alternatives, no?
For the record, it looks _VERY_ good, and I have heard nothing but
compliments for them. But caution is a very good philosophy to take,
especially since we are not in a hurry -- and sourceforge.net won't be
going anywhere (and if it is, that's a very good reason not to use it).
<snip part about Alain continuing to host>
But you can for the next few weeks, while we try it out and make a decision?
>Anthony: Maybe some ISP would even donate resources to
>help an OS project (no doubt for the good PR, but
>still a good deal for us).
>
>Alain: Anything is possible. The 'good PR' part would
>probably translate into some online advertising, or
>something like that.
Probably a 'thanks' page or maybe a link somewhere. That's how it's
done a lot of times. We'll have to look.
