Marc Fargas wrote: > I agree on those, maybe the greatest thing to get on would be to > provide that svn+trac that some people was interested in, and to put > the snippets inside. And setup something like a "django portal" with > not only information about what is inside the repositories but also > projects, applications and so that are outside the site. That way > newcomers and users have a unique place to find everything they want. > And those who don't know/want to setup SVN and TRAC can getit for > their django projects. > > So "A central location for all django contributed work, and a place to > host your project" ;)
This and Ian's point is good, that we should not necessarily expect people to migrate from their existing svn hosting to a new one. So I think an abstracted layer of sorts would make sense--something that obscures whether a project's SVN/Trac is at Djangoforge, or at an external location--and that way from the perspective of "I need to find a project/app/snippet that does X", the site is uniform, and the nitty gritty of where you actually get the code is dealt with later on. The primary issue with referencing external code is that there might theoretically be some sort of legal or permissions related issues. I know that it is not *illegal* to link to other peoples' publicly available URLs, but it's still nice to ask first, especially when there is metadata associated with it (description, list of authors, tags/categories, etc, etc). And finally, yes, there is still the issue of A) providing hosting for people who cannot or will not host a project themselves (or who, like myself, sometimes keep "specific" versions of their apps locally and who would prefer to publish a "modular" version on a site like Djangoforge) and B) dealing with more atomic stuff, i.e. the "snippets" of templatetags/filters, model examples, etc. I'm still unsure how much of this is treading on what should be the current Django wiki's territory; it's already capable of referencing existing projects and storing code snippets, so with some sort of "project listing template" all that Djangoforge would offer extra is the actual hosting for folks without any--which, yes, Google Code and friends already provide. Hmm. -Jeff --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
