On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Stéphane Ducasse <stephane.ducasse@inria.fr> wrote:
how your server is backed up? Then we should pay attention not to end u having multiple of sources around before we can deal with the mess this may create. We got the ok from inria for a webdav server (the problem was that from a security view point, having an anonymous write was a no go. So now we will do     - write only inbox         - inputs are then checked to be only .mcz         - then automatically copied to a readonly inbox     - pharo* projects should be         read and write for the people registered to the forge.
Great, this is only for Pharo or you want to mirror also Squeak projects ?
We do not know. For now at least the Pharo* repositories and the ones that are central XML-.... Ideally I would prefer to have everything in the same place and we have no problem hosting squeak projects. Now what is more important is build a kind of process to clean projects, there are a lot of projects which got created but     - were never really used     - are students code exercises So may be starting with a metacello config for every working one could be a start.
The problem is that you lose all the nice aspects of squeak-source: UI to manage the commiters..... So we should check with the effort of dale and philippe and others on the gemstone version of squeaksource.
Yes sure there is a lot of trash in the SqueakSource repository. Maybe we could organize the repository in the front page the way github (http://github.com/explore ) are doing. What is important to see are the most active projects ;-) A lot of functionalities could be copied from github i guess. What could be nice also is to be able to see a MC repository as a git repository. I dunno if it's feasible, but it could give a lot of exposure in the open-source community to Squeak/Pharo/Smalltalk projects than today. Thank you for what you are doing for the community. -- Serge Stinckwich UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC), Hanoi, Vietnam Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk http://doesnotunderstand.org/