My primary purpose in designing this site is not to "provide another place to upload to," but to provide a place where people can get information about what's out there. That's the real deficiency here. As it has been stated, people have plenty of places to provide a repository for their code, and provide CVS resources. That's not what people need. The real problem with putting a taskdef project on Sourceforge is that there are so many _other_ projects (not just taskdef projects) on the site that it's impossible to sift through everything. I know; I spent about three hours last night doing just that. Using something like Sourceforge by itself is too frustrating. You talk about psychology -- how many people will use a service/product that's hard to use? I'm not bagging on Sourceforge, only on the idea of using it solely as the answer to this problem.
Initially at least, taskdefs.org will focus on providing a search capability and links to documentation for users' taskdefs. Bottom line, if you want to let people know that you've gone to this trouble, you can let them know. Regards, John -----Original Message----- From: asr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 12:00 AM To: ant-dev Cc: asr Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Coming Soon: taskdefs.org website... => On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:10:54 -0700, "Steve Loughran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Given that sourceforge provides a reliable (albeit not 100% secure) store > for CVS projects under whichever OSS license the authors choose, the source > repositories for individual projects can be offloaded. > So the taskdefs.org site could be used as an index of all the tasks in > progress, but doesnt need to deal with running sub CVS projects, managing > accounts, etc -all the time consuming admin cruft. What it comes down to is an exercize in psychology. You can do work providing services (i.e. source control, publicity, etc.) and attract people to build things under the auspices of your site, and become known as the place -where- that kind of thing gets done. or You can do work searching out tasks and their writers, cajole them into keeping their things up to date, and keep a current list, and then become known as the place to -find out where- that kind of thing gets done. But you won't get people to just register their tasks with you unless you either give them cookies, or do the initial work to develop the rep. It'd be One More Place To Upload to. The latter is probably easier to begin. - Allen S. Rout - One man peanut gallery
