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[Savannah-dev] Re: GPL Source Forge
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Loic Dachary |
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[Savannah-dev] Re: GPL Source Forge |
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Mon, 19 Nov 2001 23:36:20 +0100 |
Cesar Brod writes:
> Expanding a little bit on Vilson's original e-Mail ...
>
> We are using SourceForge software for about a year now. It started when
> we needed a tool that would allow us cooperative development of our free
> software projects, and soon after that we opened it for the community.
> CodigoAberto (http://codigoaberto.org.br) now hosts more than 100
> projects of almost 900 developers. CodigoAberto already has some tools
> that are not part of SourceForge, although it still has pretty much the
> same "skin".
>
> With the development of MIOLO (http://miolo.codigoaberto.org.br), an
> Object Oriented database connection and presentation middleware for PHP
> application development, we are planning to migrate CodigoAberto to a
> completely new structure, based on the MIOLO-DP (MIOLO Distributed
> Portal). So, we pretty much know what we need. The only thing we lack is
> developers time, since pretty much all of us are knee-deep on other
> projects. This is one of the reasons Vilson (MIOLO's main author) is
> traveling to Gelsenkirchen, German, where he will stay for three months
> teaching, among other things, cooperative free software development with
> MIOLO. He will try to get more people involved with our projects and
> also get some funding that would allow us to hire more people to work
> with us with free software development.
>
> A SourceForge like site to host Free Software projects is really
> non-rocket-science, as most of the tools needed for cooperative
> development already exist - it is a lot of work, though. It is just a
> question of getting all tools (CVS, Mailing Lists, Forums, Project
> Management, etc...) together and make it as easy as possible for newbies
> to get excited about it and start using it. It makes a lot of sense
> (well, to me at least...) to have a distributed portal with hosts in
> several countries, with tools that will ease cooperative software
> development. If the FSF will be the foundation behind this new "GPL-Only
> Source Forge" we can be sure no developer will get caught in the
> SourceForge trap.
>
Thanks very much for this detailed description. I hope you
found all you need to know about Savannah at
http://savannah.gnu.org/docs/savannah-plan.html.
I'd be interested to hear why MIOLO would be better than
phpGroupWare for the implementation of a cooperative development
platform. Could you please highlight the two or three most important
points ?
Thanks in advance,
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