[Debian-sf-devel] Re: submission of ourproject.org free projects tool devel - savannah.nongnu.org

[Vicente Ruiz]

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 10:27, Mathieu Roy wrote:
> I believe that your goals are compatible with Savannah goal (for
> debian-sf, I do not know). 

Excellent. 

But from my point of view, our goals are compatible but different. Or
maybe savannah.gnu.org are interested in the future in hosting other
kind of "free projects" not only software? 

I think that your goals is to help only to the Free Software Community
of Developpers.

I make these question because I'm searching for a platform which can
support "free projects". But I don't have special interest that this
platform it's call ourproject.org or savannah.gnu.org or acme.org. I
only want to help in the development of this tool with this philosophy
and to develop free project on it with more people.

> But note that it's completely
> up-to-you. I'm not trying to force you to help us because of my
> position.

Don't worry, It's very clear.

>  
> I just wanted to tell you that I think it may be a good option if you
> work with us (and i18n becomes more and more and issue - and you re
> dealing with issue that are in fact related to translations) 

If I'm not wrong, Savannah don't have nowadays other language support.

For us its very, very important the internationalization. For example we
are now using utf8 for all languages and our "Project Map" looks like
this if you select World --> Japanese (and you have the correct fonts
installed):
http://ourproject.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=2554

because maybe I am Spanish but I want to collaborate in a Japanese free
project, or in a multilanguage free project, why not.

> but if
> you do not think so, you're free to resubmit your project and we will
> accept it (as soon as you add the license/copyright notes).

I need to make a diagram with the differents branches and our modest
site. Maybe it's something like that:

       /----------------------- Savannah (free software/docs)
       |
SF ----+                . . . . . .ourproject (free projects)
       |               /
       \----- debian-sf
       |               |
       \---------------\------gforge (software/docs projects)


For me it's very easy to follow the gforge branch but not so easy to
follow the Savannah branch. But my decision depends in the interest of
the different groups in "free projects" (not only software).

Personally I don't have the knowledge about Savannah and Gforge to
evaluate the proposal of Christian.

BR,

Vicente Ruiz