From: Tobias DiPasquale <anany@...>
Date: 2001-12-05T01:19:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27457] Re: Sourceforge vs. Savannah

Hi mips,

mips wrote:

> [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.


I am talking about projects that are part of the GNU project. There is a 
specific coding style and convention associated with being part of the 
GNU project. You can find out more here:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_toc.html

Also, I am not a fundamentalist. I believe that people have the right to 
decide on which license that they wish to distribute their software 
under. What I AM a fundamentalist about is people being treated with 
respect. That was my issue.


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



This is true, but what about those projects whose developers can afford 
no other home than SourceForge? It would be unfortunate to see good 
projects get taken down simply because they are "unmarketable".


> 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 ?
> 

I would be interested in that, if just to practice my French :)

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