From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 9 12:23:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1628337C012 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 12:23:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from nlsys.demon.co.uk ([158.152.125.33] helo=herring.nlsystems.com) by anchor-post-30.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12pFbD-0001ub-0U; Tue, 9 May 2000 20:23:20 +0100 Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA48112; Tue, 9 May 2000 20:26:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 20:28:06 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do people think of maybe using the sourceforge software? In-Reply-To: <14620.957842046@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 May 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > http://sourceforge.net/project/filelist.php?group_id=1 > > Contains the software used by source forge to implement the > project/help desk/download tracker thingie which they themselves use > to manage the various projects registered with source forge. > > I think it's also reasonable to say that FreeBSD itself is a bit too > large to register and run as a sourceforge project, but why not use > the same software to offer a higher level of "polish" to the existing > project infrastructure? Comments? I'm just playing with this stuff a > bit myself right now and will say more once I actually know more about > it. > I've been using it to work on the DRI project recently and I like it. The web-based frontend for creating accounts and managing SSH keys is pretty useful. I'm not quite sure how well the patch manager scales - it barfed when I uploaded a patch containing a large uuencoded file. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 20 8442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message