Re: [gNewSense-users] Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Webapps infrastructure

[Karl Goetz]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:25:22 +0200
Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:

> Karl Goetz schreef:
> > I'm putting out this call to ask for thoughts on what people would
> > like to see replacing our current infrastructure. Any ideas are
> > welcome, but appreciate there's a number of factors involved when
> > things are discussed.
> 
> I'd like to point out that Launchpad should be free in a few months.
> I think that would get us the following:
> 
> Advantages:
> - Gratis server space and management (at least for some stuff)
> - Improved co-operation with upstream
> - PPA for a community repository
> - More attention and so more potential contributors from the huge
> Ubuntu community
> 
> Disadvantages:
> - We wouldn't have all our data on our own server
> - Will it be free enough (ref. Franklin Street statement and such)?
> - There doesn't seem to be a tool to migrate from Pmwiki

On a purely personal level, I hate using hosted services, and if
possible I'd rather we avoid them. (Not to say we cant consider them,
but I'll be arguing against :))
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian user / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au
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