Re: Using SourceForge for GDP members

[Bill <romp infinet com>]

I like the idea of using sourceforge for the GDP. I volunteer to put the 
Electric Eyes docs on it for everyone to criticize and make fun of...  :)

I already have an account on sourceforge but have never been too active in
a project.

First time for everything as they say.


On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:25:30 Kenny Graunke wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:37:49PM -0600 or thereabouts, John Fleck wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:40:10PM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> > > 
> > > What do people think of using SourceForge to host docs which GDP members
> > > want other GDP members to look over and give feedback on?  Some of us do
> > > not have easy access to a host to post our docs on.  SourceForge would
> > > give us a place to do this.  I don't think we would use any of
> > > SourceForge's other services, and we definitely would not move our web
> > > pages or any other permanent services to SourceForge.  It would just be
an
> > > easy way for Joe-GDP-member to login and place his my-gnome-doc.html
files
> > > on the net.  We would probably want this to be a site for temporary
files
> > > only and have a policy of erasing any file which is older than, say, two
> > > months.
> > > 
> > > Dan
> 
> Sounds like a good idea to me.
>  
> > This seems like an effective solution to an ongoing problem.
> >    
> > Would there be maintenance issues? I've not used SourceForge - how are
> > permissions handled? Who has permission to upload files, modify them
> > and delete them?
>  
> You have project "admins" and members at sourceforge - you essentially add
> them to your "gdp" group. Everyone would have to sign up with sourceforge,
> and they'd get a ssh shell account. So they can copy files and just set
> regular UNIX permissions (essentially, whoever is in the group, although
> someone could choose to set files to not be group writable...)
> 
> If you don't have SSH, you're pretty out of luck, though. I don't think
that's
> a really big problem, though.  
> 
> Kenny
> 
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