On Nov 24, 2007, at 6:02 AM, Randall Wood wrote:
I didn't know we had a presence on SourceForge. They have lots of services: downloads, issue tracker, mailing lists, web site. Should we start using those as well? I would say no. We already have an issue tracker, mailing lists, and web site through Mac OS Forge, and we have thus far hosted downloads there as well. Let's continue to host downloads and everything else with Mac OS Forge as well. If Mac OS Forge's download system is insufficient, we should bring that up with Mac OS Forge management, not jump ship to SourceForge. I think we shouldn't be using SourceForge for anything. Not that I have anything against them at all. We just already have alternatives. Let's keep everything in one place.
I'm not advocating we move any of our services anywhere, our relationship with Mac OS Forge is only improving by the day ;-) We will keep using all our regular services on our kind host, including our existing download venues. I did suggest, however, that we:
The only really possibly useful service for us that SourceForge (SF) has is that massive geographically dispersed mirrored download service.
Leverage SoureForge's geographically distributed download mirrors in addition to Mac OS Forge's servers, just for higher availability. Regards,... -jmpp