From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-22T14:02:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyForge.org

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gavin Sinclair" <gsinclair@soyabean.com.au>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:41 PM
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyForge.org


> > All,
> >
> > I want to announce that we (InfoEther) have stood up a community server
> > for Ruby projects here:
> >
> >      http://www.rubyforge.org
> >
> 
> Wow, what a pleasant surprise!  And to think I was going to create a
> project on SourceForge; I'm glad I procastinated!
> 
> You *are* going to host my project, aren't you? ;)

I think this is a great idea, Rich!

BTW, did you get my email the other day?

But Gavin's note got me thinking: If there were 
any downside to RubyForge, it would be this: 
There will be less use of SourceForge and
Savannah for Ruby projects, which might be bad
for Ruby advocacy. People might look on these
well-known sites to see how many Ruby-related 
projects there are, and conclude that Ruby is 
not really used much.

Therefore I'd like to see RubyForge promoted
heavily as it gets larger... ultimately we want 
even non-Rubyists to know of its existence, IMO.

Hal

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