Sometime on Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:13:21PM -0400, Nikhil Marathe said:
This is a quite simple and basic idea i had today. Some of you may have noticed that when oss developers are releasing it they have to put in a lot of time to design a proper website for it. So if we could have a bunch of php scripts together that would do the following things(more if you have suggestions):
Did you recently see Avsap's homepage? KG is using Plone for it. http://www.avsap.org.in/ Plone and Savannah/Sorceforge takes care of all you've listed.
- Automatically generate common links like Screenshots, About,
Features, Download, Help.
- The developer just has to put download files in a directory called
downloads or something and then the install script will parse the directory contents and generate links for download. Overtime it could be modified to recognise extensions such as deb & rpm & tar.gz and put 'source', or 'debian woody'
- The install script will generate html files so that the developer
can add more program specific html
- It will be modular using include()
- Other directories like faq or help or screenshots will also be
passed
That's exactly what Savane and Gforge do!
Anurag