[Savannah-dev] Re: GPL Source Forge

[Loic Dachary]

Cesar Brod writes:
 > Expanding a little bit on Vilson's original e-Mail ...
 > 
 > We are using SourceForge software for about a year now. It started when 
 > we needed a tool that would allow us cooperative development of our free 
 > software projects, and soon after that we opened it for the community. 
 > CodigoAberto (http://codigoaberto.org.br) now hosts more than 100 
 > projects of almost 900 developers. CodigoAberto already has some tools 
 > that are not part of SourceForge, although it still has pretty much the 
 > same "skin".
 > 
 > With the development of MIOLO (http://miolo.codigoaberto.org.br), an 
 > Object Oriented database connection and presentation middleware for PHP 
 > application development, we are planning to migrate CodigoAberto to a 
 > completely new structure, based on the MIOLO-DP (MIOLO Distributed 
 > Portal). So, we pretty much know what we need. The only thing we lack is 
 > developers time, since pretty much all of us are knee-deep on other 
 > projects. This is one of the reasons Vilson (MIOLO's main author) is 
 > traveling to Gelsenkirchen, German, where he will stay for three months 
 > teaching, among other things, cooperative free software development with 
 > MIOLO. He will try to get more people involved with our projects and 
 > also get some funding that would allow us to hire more people to work 
 > with us with free software development.
 > 
 > A SourceForge like site to host Free Software projects is really 
 > non-rocket-science, as most of the tools needed for cooperative 
 > development already exist - it is a lot of work, though. It is just a 
 > question of getting all tools (CVS, Mailing Lists, Forums, Project 
 > Management, etc...) together and make it as easy as possible for newbies 
 > to get excited about it and start using it. It makes a lot of sense 
 > (well, to me at least...) to have a distributed portal with hosts in 
 > several countries, with tools that will ease cooperative software 
 > development. If the FSF will be the foundation behind this new "GPL-Only 
 > Source Forge" we can be sure no developer will get caught in the 
 > SourceForge trap.
 > 

        Thanks very much for this detailed description. I hope you
found all you need to know about Savannah at
http://savannah.gnu.org/docs/savannah-plan.html.

        I'd be interested to hear why MIOLO would be better than
phpGroupWare for the implementation of a cooperative development 
platform. Could you please highlight the two or three most important
points ?

        Thanks in advance,

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