Re: Idea of a new Ada website.

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@skynet.be>]

Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov> writes:

> > 3. Without searching in the project tree at sourceforge, have you
> > every tried to search for a given type of software, at
> > sourceforge.
> 
> I just searched for "ada" at Savannah. It found several projects
> written in Ada (some that I had not known about), including
> Grace. It also found some that apparently are not written in Ada.
> 
> Yes, search engines are complex, failure-prone beasts. Using a
> separate web site with different software is not the best cure, in
> my opinion.
> 
> If you really want a separate website, just get a copy of the
> Savannah system (it's all Free Software).

Stephe, while I agree on all your other points, I must say that
SourceForge has a very nifty feature called the Software Map.  In it,
you can browse the projects by programming language; there are
currently 67 Ada projects there.  By contrast, on Savannah, you have
to rely on the project maintainers to mention the word "Ada" in the
project description, and then the search engine produces a lot of
noise (e.g. project "bradabra").  I think the SourceForge feature of
classifying projects by programming language is quite nice and useful.

BTW, the software for SourceForge is also free; so much so that it's
even in Debian's main section, and is the base for Savannah.

Also, what makes you say that Savannah is more OpenSource-friendly
than SourceForge?

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.