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Re: Octave Central (or something like that)
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Paul Kienzle |
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Re: Octave Central (or something like that) |
Date: |
Thu, 8 Mar 2007 22:30:49 -0500 |
On Mar 8, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Søren Hauberg wrote:
I believe drupal should be able to do most of what we want out of
the box, but it doesn't come for free. Drupal requires more from the
server than static html pages. It's based around PHP and MySQL so it
has some performance requirements. Do we have access to a server that
can provide PHP and MySQL? If not, then I don't think we can create a
"Octave Central".
Hosting Drupal on sourceforge is apparently possible:
http://starkos.industriousone.com/drupal_on_sourceforge
Ability to upload/download packages is a minimum. Anything else is
optional.
Some desirable features:
* Signed packages.
* Author email associated with each package (though not necessarily
visible).
* Only authors/administrators can update/remove packages --- we can
avoid passwords if package updates are confirmed by email.
* Issue tracking is useful so long as it is simple, and the submitter
doesn't have to have an account.
* A talk page for each package might be enough, particularly if it is
echoed to the author email address.
* Ratings aren't that useful.
* Download statistics might be nice.
* Tags would be good, particularly as the number of packages grows. To
make tags more useful, users should have to choose from a tag list.
Creating new tags should be difficult.
* Precompiled binaries for Windows and OS X.
* Online package docs and source browsing --- make it easy to decide
whether a package is worth downloading.