[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of Portland Directory Project

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Simón Medrano <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: Portland Directory Project
System name: pdp
Type: 2

Description:
Portland Directory Project:

Our PDP (Portland Directory Project) scripts do mantain a list of websites. The 
difference with other similar web directories is that ours only admits domain 
and subdomain names as website addresses, and checks (via DNS) that those sites 
be actually hosted at a given service provider (using an array of IPs or domain 
names). It will have two modes of operation (moderated, and unmoderated).
Moderated, will require some users with special privileges to accept or reject 
site submissions. While Unmoderated (or Auto-moderated), will put all recently 
submited sites into a list and let other users (already accepted) to check 
those sites and vote to accept or reject that submission.
It will also allow the users to manually edit the information related to their 
sites, and we are planning to add some features such as voting for the best 
sites, statistical information, advanced searches by sitename, webmaster, 
description, update time, etc.
It will probably share users database with others PHP database driven portals 
or website content management scripts.

We are actually working on it, but we *need* CVS.

Other Software Required:
Our Portland Directory Project runs on any PHP4 enabled webserver (preferably 
Apache) with a SQL database server (such as MySQL or PostgreSQL).
Does not have any extra requirement.

Other Comments:
We started this project by the idea of creating a web directory of sites on a 
free webhosting provider (Portland Communications http://www.portland.co.uk/).
Initially, this project was aimed to be just an extension of the Portland 
Portal (http://portal.portland.co.uk/ which is run by volunteers users of the 
Portland free webhosting service).
But we decided to make it more extensible, and we didn\'t want to use any 
existent PHP libraries or content management scripts (such as PHP-Nuke, or 
similar); and amied our PDP software to any free webhosting provider, or 
webmaster\'s portals, or any other web community.

So we started coding and we found ourselves with the need of a version 
management system. We thought of CVS, but we do not have enough resources to 
run our own CVS server. Neither have Portland Communications provide us with 
that service.
We went to SourceForge.net, but they rejected our project, saying that PDP does 
not differ much from existing ones. :(