From: Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT <jupp@...>
Date: 2003-12-10T09:03:12+09:00
Subject: Finding Software, prenatal projects at RubyForge (Was: format money)

Hi!

* Gavin Sinclair; 2003-12-09, 14:23 UTC:
> And that's a very good question indeed. They [raa and rubyforge]
> are not automatically linked. Whether they will be at some point in
> the future is a matter for discussion.

Rubyforge has an RSS feed with a list of all projects. RAA could use
that.

> At the moment, it's best to keep both sites in mind when looking
> for stuff.

German edition of FAQ on this group now has an additional section
(presently uploading):

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3.3 Wie finde ich Ruby-Software?

Die wichtigsten Adressen f�r Ruby-Software sind:

  * Ruby Application Archive (RAA)
  * RubyForge

Wenn Sie dort keine passende Software finden, sollten Sie zun�chst
bei FreshMeat Station machen. Sollen Sie dort ebenfalls nicht f�ndig
werden, bleibt Ihnen noch die Suche mit Hilfe von Google.
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RAA, RubyForge, FreshMeat and Google are hyperlinked to the obvious
targets. I suggest adding something like that to the english edition,
too:

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Where to find Ruby software?

The most important addresses for Ruby software are:

  * Ruby Application Archive (RAA)
  * RubyForge

If the don't have any software that fits you needs you should first
go to FreshMeat. If they also don't have any fitting software you
still can use Google.
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> In the future we may see some cyber-squatting at -forge whereby
> someone registers a cool project name, sits on it and sells it to
> the highest bidder when somebody actually wants to implement it :)

A suggestion in analogy to German Markengesetz (law on trademarks).
According to that law a trademark must be 'used' within a certain
period of time or there is no legal protection anymore.

I think that if a registered project is not able to upload some web
pages nor some software within three months the one who did
initialize this project should be contacted and given an additional
month to provide something. Four months should be enough to at least
provide some web pages that in some detail explain what the software
will be good for.

After four months the project should be removed.

I think that is fair because I find it very annoying to see
announcements for interesting software and after several months still
not seeing any progress.

IMHO it is a bad habit to register a project if one has nothing to
provide so far. It need not be a usable version of the softwaer but
it should be at least a sketch of what it does and how - Planning
status that is.

Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT
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