Re: Idea of a new Ada website.

[Stephen Leake <Stephe.Leake@nasa.gov>]

"Stephane Richard" <stephane.richard@verizon.net> writes:

> Here's my point of view on the project parts.
> 
> 1. The first reason I had to want to do this isn't really a new sourceforge
> lookalike per say.  I'm offering this only as an alternative as far as
> project sources/distributions are concerned.  Maybe some programmers simply
> dont want to go through all the steps and different project management
> methods that are at sourceforge.   

Then it's not a real project. Everything at SourceForge (or Savannah)
is necessary on a real project. Small projects don't need all the
bells and whistles at first, but they can just be ignored, and will be
needed later.

> Maybe they just want a place to put their sources and distributions
> so others can download them and have a "wiki" or something like it
> to keep others informed on their work. 

That's what Savannah is. The Grace project was _very_ simple to set
up; all we needed to do was get ssh cvs working, and set a few admin
parameters. 

I strongly suggest you _try_ setting up a Savannah project before you
decide it's "too hard".

> a lot of users may also have their own version control system at
> home so they can do that part locally and only post a new version
> when they see it fit.

Also not appropriate for a "real project", where there is more than
one developer.

I'm considering moving all my projects to Savannah, so I can share
them between my own several machines more easily.

> 2. As I said in 1. I do plan to offer WIKIs for the projects,
> whether they are hosted on the website or not. Visitors might still
> want to be updated on a given project they know about. 

I'm not clear on the advantages of WIKIs vs what Savannah currently
has; can you list them?

> 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).

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-- Stephe