Martin v. Löwis wrote: > M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >>True, but if we never ask, we'll never know :-) >> >>My question was: Would asking a professional hosting company >>be a reasonable approach ? > > It would be an option, yes, of course. It's not an approach that > *I* would be willing to implement, though.
Fair enough. >>>From the answers, I take it that there's not much trust in these >>offers, so I guess there's not much desire to PSF money into this. > > I haven't received any offers to make a qualified statement. I only > know that I would oppose an approach to ask somebody but our > volunteers to do it for free, and I also know that I don't want to > spend my time researching commercial alternatives (although I > wouldn't mind if you spent your time). I don't quite understand what you meant here: are you opposing spending PSF money on a hosting company if and only if volunteers who take on the job don't get paid ? I've done a bit of research on the subject and so far only found CollabNet and VA offering commercial services in this area. VA hosts SourceForge so that's a non-option, I guess :-) I know that Greg Stein worked for CollabNet, so thought it might be a good idea to ask him about the idea to move things to CollabNet. Of course, before taking this route, I wanted to get a feeling for the general attitude towards a commercial approach, which is why I tossed in the idea. Other non-commercial alternatives are Berlios and Savannah, but I'm not sure whether they'd offer Subversion support. BTW, have you considered using Trac as issue tracker on svn.python.org ? They have a very good subversion integration, it's easy to use, comes with a wiki and looks great. Oh, and it's written in Python :-) -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 03 2005) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,FreeBSD for free ! :::: _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
