DN645990177

Subject: Re: SourceForge(-like) setup (WAS Re: Tcl/Tk reference guide updated) - DN [1]

Jeffrey Hobbs <jeffrey.hobbs@ajubasolutions.com> - 13 Jul 2000 - comp.lang.tcl

 Mo wrote:
 >
 > Jeffrey Hobbs wrote:
 > >
 > > lvirden@cas.org wrote:
     ...
 > > > Why not set up a sourceforge (or similar) location and do just that?
 > > > Seems like a reasonable thing.  That way anyone who wants to sign up
 > > > to maintain a section could.
 > >
 > > If someone would be willing to setup SourceForge (I hear that you
 > > can get the system in open source) or a similar system, Ajuba will
 > > provide the hardware and ssh access to host it.  This would be part
 > > of the larger plan to centralize and foster community development.

 > If you guys are really serious about doing this sort of thing, I
 > can set up a cross build environment. That would be really great
 > because we could build executables for Linux, Windows, Solaris, ...
 > and key it to a CVS checkin. If you checked in code that did not
 > compile, you would get an automated email nasty gram. I agree
 > with Paul, you just can't "dip your toe" into something like
 > this. If you are going to do it, you really need to dedicate
 > resources (oops I mean people) to set it up. Pervious history
 > has shown that Ajuba has not been able to dedicate a lot of
 > man hours to external developers needs (Come on, the bug
 > database took forever to get online, and you still can't
 > change anything from outside). I have been going through this
 > same sort of thing with IBM. I recently took over as the
 > project coordinator for the Jikes Java compiler project.
 > IBM provides a Linux box with CVS access and web server,
 > which is great and all, but if they did not have IS guys on
 > call to admin the box, things would go to hell in a hand basket.

 Agreed and understood.  You shouldn't read into my short statements
 that we wouldn't help admin the machine or do backups, which we
 would.  We would make the time to make sure that such things went
 smoothly, but we don't have the time necessarily to make all the
 enhancements to the system (like a SourceForge system or a more
 advanced bug db).  Please wait for our proposal, to come within a
 week, which will explain this in much more detaul.

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    Jeffrey Hobbs                     The Tcl Guy
    hobbs at ajubasolutions.com       Ajuba Solutions (née Scriptics)