From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2005-03-04T14:29:36+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA Status & b

Hal Fulton wrote:
>
> leon breedt wrote:
> >
> > My major beef with the RubyForge/GForge/SourceForge is that for every
> > single project you register, the assumption is made that you want the
> > entire set of project lifecycle features, and clutters your project
> > page with every single feature of the software. To me, thats  worse.
> >
> > I'm not saying its not providing a valuable service. But trying to
> > provide everything to everyone has never seemed to work out in the
> > real world. What is RubyForge's core valuable feature? An SCM
> > repository, mailing lists, and a Wiki, and stats/news on the
> > registered projects, and central downloads.
> >
>
> That gives me an interesting idea. What if the unused features
> for a project weren't visible?
>
> Would that be hard to hack up? Tom C, are you reading?  ;)
>
> I know that I for one *frequently* visit the tabs for a project
> and find there is nothing there (especially the Docs).
>
> I'd like it if the links that led to dead ends could be somehow
> grayed-out or made unclickable.

You can already do that. The project admin can turn off those features and
then the tabs don't appear.

Curt