From: mips <mips@...>
Date: 2001-12-04T23:23:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27445] Re: Sourceforge vs. Savannah

> On the other hand, I agree that a Ruby foundry on SourceForge would be
a 
> very good thing, not only for the community, but also in terms of 
> increasing the community base. Other developers who might have never 
> heard of or used Ruby before could be exposed to this wonderful 
> language. For this reason, I too agree that a Ruby foundry should be 
> started. But why not start one on Savannah as well? I'm sure at this 
> stage of the game that the FSF would love to have all those projects
and 
> hits on their site, if nothing else but to promote the site's usage.
We 
> could help them out by extending the site to include Foundry 
> functionality and in turn have an alternative to SF, should you wish
for 
> one. Anybody working on that, know of anyone who is doing that?

Are you thinking about projects which aren't under GPL license or
another GNU license ?
You have doubt against SourceForge, but i got same doubt against FSF
when i see extremists like mr RMS.

Projects are licensed, so neither SouceForge nor Savannah cannot do
anything except stopping to host them.

I think that the good option will be to make foundry on both to give the
choice to projects maintainer.
No need to say that i will not move my ruby related projects to savannah
only for a foundry question (that will not be a lack :).

mips

PS:
The vote for a french ruby related newsgroup has been released and the
result is _NO_ due to a low number of 'YES' of vote, are we so few ?