From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2573df63ff37c586,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.213.106 with SMTP id nr10mr12034336pbc.2.1335622497854; Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Path: r9ni108422pbh.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: mockturtle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Adaforge? Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:14:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <10872380.887.1335622497447.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfr18> NNTP-Posting-Host: 93.37.82.97 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1335622497 2190 127.0.0.1 (28 Apr 2012 14:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=93.37.82.97; posting-account=9fwclgkAAAD6oQ5usUYhee1l39geVY99 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-04-28T07:14:57-07:00 List-Id: Dear.all,=20 I have some crazy thoughts that I would like to share with you... :-) Recently, a post on the LinkedIn group "Ada Programming Language," made me = think that an ingredient that can help the spreading of a programming langu= age is a variety of libraries. I confess :-) that sometimes I use Ruby and= in the past I worked also in PERL (but only with version 4! :-) and I foun= d it very convenient to have access to many libraries (of variegate quality= , to be honest) ready to use. I understand that some of us write their own libraries (I see every now and= then announcements on this group), so I was wondering if it could be worth= to try to collect all this stuff in a centralized place, kind of "rubyforg= e" for Ruby. I have a faint memory of a "adaforge.com," but it seems that = the domain has no owner currently. I also have an half a memory of some ha= lf-sleeping Ada software repositories, but I could be wrong. Maybe it would be cool if the site could offer some hosting with tools like= forum, mailing lists, ... (i.e., like rubyforge or sourceforge), but since= there are already few repositories around, it would be nice if the site co= uld also act as a "portal" toward other repositories. =20 [ An example of what I meant in the last sentence: suppose you have your = project Cool_Ada_Library registered on sourceforge, instead of moving the w= hole project to adaforge, you could register Cool_Ada_Library to adaforge = as an "external" project. Adaforge will handle your project as any other p= roject, but it will show that is externally hosted by, for example, showing= the sourceforge logo somewhere ]=20 A special feature of adaforge (related with the "safe-oriented" nature of A= da) could be that each project will have a "certification" about the "safet= y" (in the sense you like) of the software. For example, the lowest level = could be given to projects with no test procedures, an higher level to pro= jects with full-coverage test, and maybe the highest level to projects chec= ked with Spark. Of course, you could object that I can register my project on some generic = site like sourceforge, but I think that a specific site could give to Ada p= rojects a better visibility. (Actually, some languages like PERL and Ruby = have their own specialized open repositories). So, those were my wishes, how can we make them true? Well, there are few q= uestions that need an answer * I am not aware about a central repository for Ada open source software, b= ut maybe I just did not find it. Are you aware of some initiative like the = one I just described? * Maybe some of the current repositories could be improved to promote them = to create this adaforge service. Is this feasible? * Another option is to create the service from scratch, finding some good g= uy/girl that can host and maintain the site. I work in a University and I = think I would not have many problems to ask for some space on our servers, = but I have no experience with building and maintaining open source reposito= ries, so I cannot promise that I will do all by myself... That's all, folks. Just do not flame me too strongly... ;-) Riccardo