Maintain(er) OpenMokoProjects [was: Openmoko projects page down]

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Michael,

> Bringing me to my next question (all?) - what would be an adaquate location for hosting application level projects for Openmoko? Any experience? -> I really liked the idea and functionality (SVN, WIKI and docs, News, File releases, Tracker) OpenMokoProjects provided - and in the end, you could easily browse through a bunch of applications for the Freerunner / Openmoko.
> 
> I can think of (but):
...

When we started Qi Hardware we also looked around and eventually found
a software called 'Indefero' (GPL licensed):
http://www.indefero.net/
You can host projects there, and also download the whole thing for
installation on your own server.
http://projects.ceondo.com/p/indefero/downloads
So far we are quite happy with it
http://projects.qi-hardware.com/

Other than that, I had good experience with github.com and code.google.
One idea behind the Openmoko projects server was to keep all Openmoko-
related projects 'nearby', although some people thought that concept is a
bit strange when the whole Internet is built around URLs.

However, it seems the idea of keeping the 'family' together kind of worked,
so I think the first priority should be to get the OpenMokoProjects server
back on track. The server side software used there is more or less dead, so a
more radical approach would be to update to something newer like Indefero.
Which would be a big task though and break everybody's URLs...

Wolfgang

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 08:47:25AM +0100, Michael Pilgermann wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> the OpenMokoProjects page is back online - thanks to whoever did this.
> 
> But in fact, I got a bit concerned about carrying on to host my projects there. What is the status of this site - and who is the maintainer? 
> Could you please do any statement about the future of OpenMokoProjects? (if it is unlikely to be continued, I would rather start migrating the content from there) ...
> 
> Bringing me to my next question (all?) - what would be an adaquate location for hosting application level projects for Openmoko? Any experience? -> I really liked the idea and functionality (SVN, WIKI and docs, News, File releases, Tracker) OpenMokoProjects provided - and in the end, you could easily browse through a bunch of applications for the Freerunner / Openmoko.
> 
> I can think of (but):
> - sourceforge.net (for my taste has become too much marketing touchy)
> - google code (well; it's still Google)
> - some corner on SHR web side??
> - github.com (I have no experience at all; but it looks like providing most of the functionality I mentioned before
> - feshmeat.net (would only be for the "front page" I guess)
> 
> Writing all this; I remember discussions on these lists here about an Openmoko application directory.? I can't remember the outcome of this discussion - has anything evolved from it?
> 
> Please, I would be thankful for any input ... thanks in advance;
> 
> Best
> Michael
> 
> 
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> > Datum: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:25:11 +0100
> > Von: Michael Pilgermann <kichkasch at gmx.de>
> > An: community at lists.openmoko.org, shr-user at lists.shr-project.org, shr-devel at lists.shr-project.org, devel at lists.openmoko.org
> > Betreff: Openmoko projects page down
> 
> > 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > I have experienced problems in accessing the Openmoko Projects web page
> > (http://projects.openmoko.org/) for a couple of days now; always
> > receiving the following error message:
> > 
> > "OpenMokoProjects Could Not Connect to Database: "
> > 
> > I am using this page for my development projects; any idea, whom to
> > contact to getting this resolved?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance; best regards
> > Michael
> > 
> > PS: I heart rumours, that the maintainer has disappeared.? Any more
> > input on that? How could (instead) restart the web- and database servers?
> > 
> > PPS: Do you know any other good place to host projects for the
> > Freerunner / SHR?
> > 
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