Re: GNUstep SoftWare Index - new project home and sources of the tool

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,
> I don't know that it was locked and I have write access for a long time.
> As far as I know there simply weren't enough people who were interested
> in editing the existing wiki. Therefore, there also weren't enough for
> cleaning a completely open wiki from spam.
>
>    
I don't think a wiki access was every refused to any of the developers 
of GNUstep, Etoile, GAP or any gnustep related project.
> IMHO it is not something political, is just a critical mass issue. If a 
> community is over
> some critical mass, you can run the Wiki openly and find people to clean it.
> If not, you have to restrict access by a registration process or the work 
> already
> invested will be lost.
>    
Exactly, more than political ideology we must pursue practicality.

As far as the topic goes: SoftwareIndex is an interesting tool. Today 
many people are "app-store" geared. Of course today we have source 
tarballs. Many people use their distribution packages. SO perhaps the 
concept of an app-store is not so important as is an organized, clean 
directory. I can imagine that potential corporate users or in any case 
people not so accustomed to the opensource way of collaborating (e.g. 
Wiki) might prefer SI.

On the wiki it is of course easier to describe each project more, to 
have more screenshots, to integrate a user-guide, keep some history, 
etc. Discussion is best kept on the mailing list I guess.

The only real negative thing is the duplicated effort to keep everything 
updated in two places and also the disconnection between the two 
indices. It might be interesting to have a wiki link for each entry in 
the SI. This would be like a "learn more" link.

Thank you,
  Riccardo