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From: Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Idea of a new Ada website.
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Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@skynet.be> writes:

> 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.

Ok. So help the Savannah people implement that :).

> 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.

Ok, so use the SourceForge software for your site. My basic point is
"don't re-invent the wheel".

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

Well, I'm mostly going on some discussions that took place here over a
year ago. It seems SourceForge took some of their code out of the Open
Source license, and some developers got upset, and left to form
Savannah.

To be precise, I suspect Savannah is more Free Software friendly, not
just Open Source friendly. But this is drifting way off topic for
c.l.a. 

-- 
-- Stephe