Simon Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am about to take over maintainership of a small project (just a hobby, > won't be big and professional like gnu) ;-) and I'm wondering where is > best to host it.
Best place? Your own server and then get mirrors. Several modern version control systems can publish to a simple http server. [...] > Are these concerns still valid and what are peoples thoughts on hosting > code with Googles new software project hosting service? Google's hosting service seems to share Sourceforge's non-free code problem, and Google has many other problems, locking people out, not responding to bugs and generally polluting the network. See http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2006/google for a rough list. It doesn't include much on the hosting yet, but I'd be surprised if old Googlebugs like the registration pressure, accessibility failures and .coop bans and so on aren't repeated. Also, I'd avoid Savannah and GNA for now, unless you know you are happy with their policies (such as required early adoption of FDL, or HTTPS-only). BerliOS.de and TuxFamily.org seem more relaxed, but that does mean you have to check each licence - a problem for browsers more than publishers, I guess. If there's a debian angle, alioth.debian.org is another option. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - see/vidu http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Somerset, England. Work/Laborejo: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ IRC/Jabber/SIP: on request/peteble _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
