[TriLUG] Re: Tri-Lug Project Hosting: was: [The FSF Europe recommends: avoid SourceForge (fwd)]

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 02:37:05PM -0500, Christian J Hedemark spoke thusly:
> Right now I am short on $$$ and equipment to donate, but long on time (for
> the next few weeks anyway.... baby is due Dec 7).

Been there, done that...kind of *grin*

> Isn't the Sourceforge software itself available under an open source
> license?  If this is the case, could we not host our own mini-sourceforge?
> Give preference to projects hosted by TriLUG members and North Carolina
> residents/students.

I ahve some beefs with the sourceforge software. The web-boards aren't
linked to the mailing list, so if you don't log on and check the
webboards dailly, you'll miss things. And if something is posted to
the mailing lsit, and not the web board, you miss things. 

Bugzilla is a bitch to set up and configure. 

> If we still have rack space available, would it not be more cost effective
> (and secure) to put a seperate host in for this?  You'd probably be more
> likely to get all of the parts necessary to build an x86 server from the
> ground up before you would get a SCSI cabinet to expand Fatalpha.

I agree. but it would be nice to allow for building/testing on the
alpha - so that anyone who hosted there would know that their code
would run on two cpu types out of the "box" *grin*

Anyone have a Sparc or PPC that they'd donate for compiling stuff on
if we could set it up?

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