Re: Building a new home for GPE

Marcus Brown schrieb:
> Hi Nils,
Hi!

> I can't speak for other posters, nor am I aware of the issues involved
> in moving any of the other projects you mention. I can only say that
> although I've not contributed to GPE yet, I'd hate to see any reduction
> in it's development, particularly due to a fork/split/division of sub-
> projects. As long as the discussion is civil (rather than emotive;) I'd
> also regard a long discussion as (potentially) "fruitful" rather than
> a "severe debate", but I digress ;)

Fully agreed!

> Thanks for the explanation of "the history of alternative hosting".
> It helps me to understand more about why/how this has happened and how
> the ltg team has arrived at it's current state. Judging by the look of
> the site, it would seem like a good start. In a way, though, it makes
> me wonder why, apart from what seems like a personal conflict, all the
> effort put into ltg could not have been more productively spent on
> improving hh.org for all ... but that's probably not the point now :).

I think we could not have done it in the way and time we did it with LTG
on hh.org. The main maintainer of hh.org is George and to all problem
reports we sent to him he always replied that he will try to fix the issues.
This led us to the assumption that no other administrators would be welcome.

Please get me right, I honor that fully! He runs that site and if he
decides that he wants tighter control over it, for what reason ever,
then I do accept this without moaning.

But it did not solve our problem.

So we thought, if open source projects do work well with a collaborative
approach for splitting the work load, why not also site adminitration?
So we came up with LTG.

And up until now, it does indeed work pretty well.

[...]
> Your bottom-line also seems attractive in a lot of ways ;)
> (you can put it away now;)

;)

> OK, so do you mind if I ask about the hypothetical move of a project?
> Let's take my little toy for example:
> http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/RamdiskRescue
> I have the wiki documentation on hh.org, the source in svn on sf.net,
> and the build scripts running on my home server (also in svn) uploading
> images as they change to my ISPs personal webspace.
> Are you suggesting that I can combine all these things by *cough*
> moving (perhaps co-hosting sounds better?:) my project to ltg?

Absolutely!
Though it is not that strictly mobile Linux oriented I think it is
enough to fit nicely.

The process is dramatically simple:
- Go to http://projects.linuxtogo.org and create yourself a GForge account
- After the account is activated, aso using GForge propose a new project

As simple as this.
Usually new projects are approved by one of the admins within a day.
After that you have access to mailinglists, a homepage and of course
CVS/SVN.
To create Wiki content you have to create yourself an extra Wiki account
(sorry, this is not (yet) unified) and simply create a new page.

Hmm... anything forgotten? Don't think so...

Ah, yes, again, you and everyone else in the domain of portable/mobile
Linux is of course welcome to register his/her own new project there. It
is open for everyone as long as the "mobile Linux" is a correct
attribute for the project.

> [ 2nd power outage today from bushfires ... at least I didn't lose
> the mbr on my 160GB drive this time, and thunderbird saves my drafts ;]
>
> That should do me for now, too tired to continue (or remember the rest
> of the original draft).

Good luck that the fire does not come to you!

> Thanks for your detailed response.

Sure, you're welcome!
Productive and neutral discussions are welcome.

> Regards,
> Marcus.
Cheers
  nils

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