From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-12-11T02:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Finding Software, prenatal projects at RubyForge (Was: format money)

Tom Copeland wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 19:03, Josef 'Jupp' SCHUGT wrote:
> 
>>Rubyforge has an RSS feed with a list of all projects.
> 
> 
> Yup - http://rubyforge.org/export/rss_sfprojects.php
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> Yeah, Rich and I should sort that out.  The thing is that it's hard for
> me to get motivated to delete inactive projects since they don't use
> hardly any resources - just a few hundred bytes in the Postgres
> database.

Well, maybe they could be marked inactive in some way. When they
appeared in a list, they could be flagged with a little icon, and
when the page is visited, it could have a big red warning at the
top.

Just a thought.

Hal