From: Ben Bleything <ben@...>
Date: 2009-01-08T02:19:33+09:00
Subject: Re: WANTED: need a real web API for rubyforge.org

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Marcelo <marcelo.magallon@gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Create a Ruby clone of Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/)

There already is one in RedMine.

> 1.1. Make it easy to support multiple independent projects.

RedMine does.

> 1.2. Don't waste time supporting SVN, go for Git from the start

What?  No.

Here's the problem with converting RubyForge from GForge to something
written in Ruby.... you can't take features away, because they're all
in use.  That means that whatever gets written needs to support CVS,
SVN *and* Git.  It needs to have integrated forums and mailing lists
with management for both.  It needs a news system, bug trackers and a
file release system and a built-in gem indexer/server.  It needs wikis
and web space, file download and scm statistics.

This is an extremely difficult problem to solve.  GForge is a very
complex piece of software used by tons of people whose needs all need
to be balanced.  I feel pretty strongly that anything other than a
feature-for-feature clone is doomed to failure, and then we'll have
nothing.

Ben