[Mono-list] SharpOS.org

Abe Gillespie abe.gillespie at gmail.com
Tue Oct 31 09:03:41 EST 2006


No one wants to host at Google?

-Abe

On 10/31/06, Antonello Provenzano <antonello at deveel.com> wrote:
> Andrés,
>
>
> > - Use NovellForge instead of SourceForge.net (the UI is much simpler and
> > fast, and it supports bugzilla, much wonderful than the issue tracker of
> > SF.net).
>
> I used to have couple of projects on NovellForge: I cannot agree with
> you about the fact it is better than SourceForge for various reasons,
> in fact I switched all my project to the second one after a while.
> Having a faster or simpler UI than SF.net (and I don't agree on both
> of the concepts) is not something you have to consider when managing a
> project aiming to be important and accessed by many developers or
> simple users at the same time.
> You need a stable structure you can lean on in critical moments and
> you also need visibility among the development community:
> SourceForge.net is continuously monitored by millions of developers
> each day, some of them searching for projects to join.
>
> I could continue for hours debating why SourceForge is better than
> NovellForge, but I believe it's clear to many readers of this mailing
> list, so I don't want to go on this topic.
>
> Cheers
> Antonello
>
> On 10/31/06, "Andrés G. Aragoneses [ knocte ]" <knocte at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Michael Schurter escribió:
> > > Since the idea of a managed operating system has been discussed at
> > > length on the mono-devel-list, I went ahead and registered sharpos.org!
> > >
> > > I encourage anyone interested in developing a managed operating system
> > > to visit http://sharpos.org
> > >
> > > Please start editing the wiki and sign up for the mailing list[1] to
> > > continue this discussion.  That way we can stop flooding Mono lists with
> > > OT posts!
> > >
> > > (Someone is welcome to register a SourceForge.net project as well.  We
> > > can always move to SF.net when that project becomes available or split
> > > services between the two sites.)
> > >
> > > [1] http://lists.sharpos.org/listinfo.cgi/sharpos-devel-list-sharpos.org
> > >
> >
> > This idea is fantastic.
> >
> > I would propose the following:
> >
> > - Use NovellForge instead of SourceForge.net (the UI is much simpler and
> > fast, and it supports bugzilla, much wonderful than the issue tracker of
> > SF.net).
> > - Create a gmane group that hosts the list (I can do this, just approve
> > the idea please).
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >         Andrés  [ knocte ]
> >
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