[fab] project hosting?

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Wed Apr 19 19:40:04 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 12:34 -0700, Colin Bodell wrote:
> Why should it be avoided? SourceForge.net is not open source yet 
> delivers a tremendous service to the community.
> We should focus on capability and community value. You get a no cost, 
> turnkey, hosted system with  admin, backup network that you
> can configure the meet the needs of the Fedora community etc. That's not 
> a bad deal in my book. Compare SourceForge Enterprise
> against, say, Savannah (except there is not much of a comparison). I'd 
> be happy to admin it for the community too :-)

Okay,
 I'll say what I bet a lot of red hat folks don't want to say for
various political reasons.

I, speaking only for myself, am uncomfortable relying on vasoftware or
sourceforge for anything.

It being closed source is just ANOTHER nail in the coffin of using
sourceforge enterprise, imo.

-sv





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