<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=16811 >
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Nov 14 01:54:33 2007]: > > On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 09:07 -0800, Per Inge Mathisen wrote: > > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=16811 > > > > > On Nov 11, 2007 5:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From the hosting standpoint, if freeciv.org becomes a 401c3, then it > > > could collect donations so that it could pay for its own hosting if it > > > had to. > > > > The problem has always been to find someone who could host it with an > > absolutely minimum of work needed to maintain it from our end. > > > > Registering and maintaining a charity is almost a full time job. > > > > > Has anyone looked into sourceforge? > > > > Last I checked, it could not run bugzilla. > > > > - Per > > > > Hosting Bugzilla is actually very lightweight on time intensiveness from > an administrative perspective. It's now possible to give the ability to > manage individual product configurations to individuals that are not > administrators without giving away the keys to the rest of the > installation. In the past three years, I can count on one hand the > number of times I had to fix things with Bugzilla, Apache, and MySQL > (Linux based). > > In any case, I don't really care if it's Bugzilla, Sourceforge, Trac, > Jira, or something else. My point is that right now, the current issue > tracking system could do a lot more to help foster contributions. > Rather than spending a lot of resources fixing RT, why not use something > that does a much better job meeting the needs out of the box? > > Kevin > > > If Bugzilla is indeed as easy to maintain as you say, I could volunteer to take responsibility for it. The question of hosting remains. AFAIK, four alternatives have been proposed over the years: freeciv.org sourceforge.net icculus.org seul.org Let's go through them: freeciv.org: Our own aging servers in Paul's basement. Are they up to the task? sourceforge.net: The question was if bugzilla could run on SF.net webspace? icculus.org: IIRC, this was Per's contact. Status? seul.org: IIRC, this was Egor's contact. Status? ~Daniel _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
