Development website and tools
Bram Neijt
I've been busy with my master thesis and still am, so I won't do much
for the upcoming time. However, I do feel somewhat responsible for the
website and other development aids/tools. I've removed spam and
currently, due to the overload of spammers, I've disabled user account
creation on metamirrors.nl. This made me thinking: what are we using the
website for and what should we be using it for... and is everybody happy
with it?
I would like to hear from all the developers (and anybody else willing
to participate) on the following:
- Are there website things we should consider? Anything missing?
- Should we consider moving to Trac and it's wiki support?
- I think the main website of the metalinks project should become a
developer haven, and then all the user support and questions can be put
on metalinker.org. Anybody (dis)agree?
That's all. Mail me directly if you have any questions in general or
there is something I may be able to help with, feel free to add me to
googletalk/jabber (bne...@gmail.com) for such occasions.
Sincerely,
Bram
Nicolás Alvarez
Bram Neijt wrote:
> That's all. Mail me directly if you have any questions in general or
> there is something I may be able to help with, feel free to add me to
> googletalk/jabber (bneijt-Re5JQEe...@public.gmane.org) for
> such occasions.
Note that Gmane converted your email address for anti-spam reasons. (it works
for sending email because public.gmane.org will forward messages, but I doubt
Jabber would take it)
Ant Bryan
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've been busy with my master thesis and still am, so I won't do much
> for the upcoming time. However, I do feel somewhat responsible for the
> website and other development aids/tools. I've removed spam and
> currently, due to the overload of spammers, I've disabled user account
> creation on metamirrors.nl. This made me thinking: what are we using the
> website for and what should we be using it for... and is everybody happy
> with it?
starting to worry about it.
> I would like to hear from all the developers (and anybody else willing
> to participate) on the following:
>
> - Are there website things we should consider? Anything missing?
>
> - Should we consider moving to Trac and it's wiki support?
>
> - I think the main website of the metalinks project should become a
> developer haven, and then all the user support and questions can be put
> on metalinker.org. Anybody (dis)agree?
but I had to disable editing by people other than admins because of
all the spam too!
anyone else have any opinions?
--
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)) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads
Bram Neijt
But it seems to be so slow that it's not going to be usefull... porbably
why we disabled it earlier. I'm leaving it on, so people can judge it.
Maybe we should change metamirrors.nl into a Wiki or blog specifically
for the project? It currently seems to try to fix to many problems: be a
metalink distribution and project hosting site... trying to please both
users and developers. I don't think that is any good, so maybe we should
make it a developer/development only site and move all user
questions/answers to metalinker.org?
Bram
Neil M.
features and see if those perform any better. These were recently made
available as "hosted applications" so they should be easy to setup and
get started with.
Neil
Tatsuhiro
> I've just enabled the wiki athttp://metalinks.wiki.sourceforge.net/
> why we disabled it earlier. I'm leaving it on, so people can judge it.
>
It is a lot faster than sf.net wiki space and usable well. I actually
used to use sf.net wiki, and it really sucks; After I edited the page
and clicked OK button, it often returned white page and my changes
were gone!
Bram Neijt
We'll try trac for a week or so, and then I'll ask everybody for their
opinion on speed and usability. So beware... questions are coming :D
So, try: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/metalinks
and report back if you are for or against ;)
Greets,
Bram