Hi,
As announced a couple months ago, I just started my new position at
Inria, where I'll work on https://gforge.inria.fr/ with the aim to
contribute back to the FusionForge community as much as possible!
Let's wish us some huge success :)
A few words about myself: I've been working professionally on mixed
programming/sysadmining/coordinating jobs for years, and I'm a long time
contributor to Free Software, in particular maintenance of the GNU
Savannah and Savane for ~7 years. Recently I've been eager to work on
Free Software professionally and write code useful to others - and I
think I've found an opportunity to do so :)
What now?
What I plan in the short term is:
- Study the current instance and its needs in more detail.
- Once that's done, organize a physical meeting within the FusionForge
community to discuss these needs and set our goals more precisely. This
could be an opportunity to setup the next FusionForge developer meeting,
and Inria can provide a room at Place d'Italie, Paris (above IRILL).
A few broad development directions have been suggested and informally
discussed with Roland a while ago, maybe some of you have similar plans
already:
- Explore new system replications for users (to deal with webdav,
UID&NFS limits, etc.)
- Add a templating system
- Improve system responsiveness (create repos on the fly, etc.)
- Improve ergonomy / de-complexify the UI
So I'll probably start a few threads on this list shortly ;)
Shall we discuss this a bit on Friday's IRC meeting?
Note: I'll also check if the offer to mentor a group of students from
Paris 8 (working on small tasks) still stands. Wrt promoting FusionForge
at GNU Savannah and Gna!, this will be done on a personal basis and is
outside the scope of my job at Inria. I expect some discussions at
FOSDEM in a couple weeks.
Cheers!
Sylvain
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