From: leon breedt <bitserf@...>
Date: 2005-03-04T15:07:32+09:00
Subject: Re: RAA Status & b

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:29:39 +0900, Richard Kilmer <rich@infoether.com> wrote:
> Worse than what?  Its not worse if you have no other place to put stuff.
> You don't need to use it...no one is forcing that...its just an available
> service that we pay $$ for to provide something that we saw was missing.
I wasn't clear: I'd rather see it opt-in than opt-out. Otherwise, it
looks like you're neglecting the project or not maintaining it (take
Rails for example), while it actually is quite active.

Perhaps the notion of being able to specify on the summary page the
primary places of activity for the project (such as the mailing lists,
wiki, bug tracker, SCM, etc) if they're non default, would help here.
 
> It was our intent to do this, time has gotten the best of that intention,
> but its 'on the list'.   Our idea was to have RubyForge projects
> auto-populate the RAA as those projects release files, edit their metadata,
> etc.  Its an integration effort that we have not had the time to do yet,
> that's all.  Insofar as searching for things, I agree that RAA is fast and
> simple to use.  It would make a nice interface plugin for RubyForge to have
> the RAA search box on the main screen.
Are we really stuck with GForge in the long term? It would be great if
there were plans to switch to a Ruby framework, and a more Rubyist
approach was taken to the design of the site. Especially if the design
folks behind the ruby-lang.org redesign had a hand in the appearance
and UI. I understand it would be a massive migration effort though.

Apologies if my tone was a little harsh...I am a happy RubyForge
resident, just calling things as I thought I saw them.

Leon