Re: [DotGNU]SourceForge drifting

[David Sugar]

I think Savannah, and what is now happening there, is the codebase for 
the future, not Sourceforge or whatever happens to the pre-fork 
codebase.  Being able to setup a Savannah anywhere will be very useful. 
It is a mistake in my view to have "one" monster site.  There are 
plenty of projects organized around a small community or a campus, and 
having a Savannah one can role out to manage them locally would be very 
nice.

At most, what would be nice is a meta-aggregation site, such as thru a 
search/directory engine for "published" projects on Savannah-like sites. 
Not all projects need to be published widely; sometimes someone might 
create a small site and set of projects for personal work, for example. 
Another example might be a company or organization which has some 
custom projects and some public projects.  Being able to move projects 
between such sites easily could be nice also.

I think being able to deploy Savannah in a distributed manner, and 
having a global directory/search engine site that can sit on top of it 
would meet everyone's needs very well.  I also think much of the work 
that has gone into Savannah will eventually make this become reality.

David

tony stanco wrote:

> > Bill Lance <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > Although not directly related to dotGNU, this IS very
> > > significant to FS developers.
> > >
> > > http://www.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-10-20-01.en.html
> > >
> > >
> > > What a unique opportunity to really demonstrate DotGNU
> > > in action by building a distributed WebService by
> > > providing a SourceForge replacement.
> > I think this is a great idea.  Re-inventing Savannah as a distributed
> > development environment with the DotGNU webservices platform at
> > its core would be a great way to showcase DotGNU.  However this
> > would require some significant changes to Loic's plans for the
> > next-generation Savannah.
> >
> > Loic, what do you think about these ideas?
>
> Yes, I would support this completely. The key resources of the community
> need to belong to the community, not to a company. Perhaps the university
> community could also be involved, though. They have the big pipes already
> and generally the right ethical leanings.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tony Stanco, Esq.
> Senior Policy Analyst
> Cyberspace Policy Institute
> George Washington University
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