Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 19:03:31 +0100 (MET) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: Mark Mayo <mark@vmunix.com> Cc: julian@whistle.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUID-Directories patch Message-ID: <199711151803.TAA01032@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: Mark Mayo's message of Fri, 14 Nov 1997 23:16:46 -0500 References: <9942.879515612@time.cdrom.com> <346CDDE4.5656AEC7@whistle.com> <19971114231646.51209@vmunix.com>
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> if they're interested in checking out the work of the project (a > SUID patch for Samba sites, for example) they just cruise on > over to the project web page and grab the goods. People can also > of course join projects, suggest projects, etc. Sounds like a great initiative! > I'm building the thing ontop of the PostgreSQL relational database, > controlled competely from the web. I've got the design done, and I'm > going to post it here next week for feedback. I've also got a good > part of it coded up, I'm hoping it will be ready for public review > within 2 weeks. Great! How is this going to be licensed? Would you be interested in working to integrate it with a commercial project? (I'm out of time, and I'm starting to get minor conscience problems for not having given enough back to the projects I leech off yet). > The only other thing I'm not sure of is whether or not the project > database should actually maintain its own CVS tree of code from the > various projects.. Initally at least, it will just contain hyperlinks > to offsite project pages - it might be nice, however, if people could > use the familiar CVSup interface to suck down a project they are > interested in. This does become a maintanence hassle, however, since it > implies that the project leaders have to check code in, blah, blah.. > It might discourage development, so my initial impression is to just > point to web pages, or at the most have a mechanism to drop off and > check out tar-balls integrated into the web interface. > Thoughts? I'd say a cvsup-service would be nice. Not a central CVS repository - just a service that collect the different repositories and provide them as a central feed from somewhere with OK bandwidth. Almost all projects I'm involved with run under CVS anyway; I think that would be true for a lot of other freeware projects, too. Eivind.
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