Infrastructure for Mozart development

[Boriss Mejias]

Torsten Anders wrote:
> On 31.05.2006, at 20:23, Olivier Lefevre wrote:
> 
>> Re. migration to SF, no doubt this will be called bigoted of me by
>> some but allow me to point out that to many people the mere fact
>> that a project is hosted on SF is a bad smell
> 
> 
> Do you imply that projects hosted at SF are often less maintained / less 
> developing than Mozart does right now? Many of these projects appear to 
> be very healthy.

I agree with Torsten.

> 
>> IMO from being hosted at a university like it is now: that would
>> show that there are people who care enough about it to commit the
>> resources to host it.
> 
> 
> Hm. Perhaps the 'frozen' state of the Mozart website is an indication 
> that a university does indeed not have the resources or infrastructure 
> to allows for a community development which is not centralised in a 
> certain city.

One of the problem of hosting Mozart here at UCL (considering a possible 
migration), was the fact that giving away accounts to external 
developers was not seen as a good thing (maybe this could change). This 
implies a limitation to make development more open to the community, and 
that's exactly what we are trying to achieve by moving Mozart away from 
Saarbrücken.

If we are going to be active or not is independent of the fact that 
Mozart is hosted in Saarbrücken, UCL or Sourceforge. The advantage of 
moving to SF or Savanah is that we don't have the "developers' account 
administration problem" any more.

cheers
Boriss

>  
> Just my 2c
> 
> Best,
> Torsten
> 
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