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):
- 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
Please tell me what you think about it. Nikhil
--- Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil@gmail.com wrote:
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
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Nice idea Nikhil,
But have you checked out http://www.sourceforge.net and http://savannah.gnu.org.
See is it meets your perspective.
Trevor
php scripts together that would do the following things(more if you have suggestions): Please tell me what you think about it. Nikhil
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Yes but do they generate all the stuff? i don't know if they do since i have never created a project before. Nikhil
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 12:55:14PM -0400, Nikhil Marathe wrote:
Yes but do they generate all the stuff? i don't know if they do since i have never created a project before. Nikhil
Yes.
yes, they do generate all this stuff with even more features like bug tracking system and forums.
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--- Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil@gmail.com wrote:
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
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Nice idea Nikhil,
But have you checked out http://www.sourceforge.net and http://savannah.gnu.org.
And a version of sourceforge is available at http://gforge.org/
See is it meets your perspective.
Trevor
php scripts together that would do the following things(more if you have suggestions): Please tell me what you think about it. Nikhil
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Hi,
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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):
Forgive me for my ignorance, not a php or web developer.
But, isn't that what CMS (Content Management System) does for you, like Mambo, phpbb, drupal etc. You have to prepare the content, and then CMS takes care of displaying it on LAMP?
SK
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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
On Sunday 03 Jul 2005 1:32 am, Anurag wrote:
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/
in fact, for avsap i'm trying to do something on these lines - a lot of ppl interested in the development are non-techies who feel uneasy using CVS or subversion, so i'm trying to use easier tools like wiki's to help them contribute painlessly. It is still in the begining stages, but in a month or so, the main devel will still take place in the cvs/subversion repository, but *all* development will be reflected on the website so contributors can decide which medium they use to contribute. It means more work initially, but less work eventually especially when the translation to local languages start where anyone can translate bits and pieces and see the results almost in real-time on the demo.
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 08:22:48AM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Sunday 03 Jul 2005 1:32 am, Anurag wrote:
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/
in fact, for avsap i'm trying to do something on these lines - a lot of ppl interested in the development are non-techies who feel uneasy using CVS or subversion, so i'm trying to use easier tools like wiki's to help them contribute painlessly. It is still in the begining stages, but in a month or so, the main devel will still take place in the cvs/subversion repository, but *all* development will be reflected on the website so contributors can decide which medium they use to contribute. It means more work initially, but less work eventually especially when the translation to local languages start where anyone can translate bits and pieces and see the results almost in real-time on the demo.
We have plans to develop something like this, and we began developing one already. I found it very difficult to get people trained in cvs, so we do need an alternative project devt concept particularly when more and more developers are coming forward to contribute. It is good that new developers begin to contribute initially through some painless process, and slowly we can orient them to hackerdom.
Anurag, why dont you add project management stuff on our site, on top of gnowsys, and if necessary take some help from other people in the list and make it. Since you know gnowsys and can also use savane, you will be the best one to demonstrate this.
please see two of the websites, www.gnoware.org, and www.gnowledge.org/gnowsys both sites are still under development. These sites are already in template form, creating one more site is very easy.
Nagarjuna
Sometime Today, Kenneth Gonsalves assembled some asciibets to say:
of ppl interested in the development are non-techies who feel uneasy using CVS or subversion, so i'm trying to use easier tools like wiki's to help them contribute painlessly. It is still in the
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eventually especially when the translation to local languages start where anyone can translate bits and pieces and see the results almost
If this is primarily for translation, then have a look at Rosetta. Rosetta makes it easy for non-techies to do translations while still using CVS at the back end.
On Sunday 03 Jul 2005 12:00 pm, Philip Tellis wrote:
If this is primarily for translation, then have a look at Rosetta. Rosetta makes it easy for non-techies to do translations while still using CVS at the back end.
url please - seems to be a billion rosetta projects, which one?
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