On Sun, 2 Jun 2013 18:21:28 -0400 Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Personally, I value that advantage and have advocated for free > infrastructure and emphasized that while setting up Ask Fedora etc > but the question really is, is that enough of an advantage on its own > to continue investing in maintaining fedorahosted? I don't think > so. It is very clear that majority of open source developers are > just fine with using github for hosting their code and if you really > want to provide a compelling alternative, you need to compete in ease > of use, features etc. If fedorahosted was the only reliable service > that is using free software, I see a point in continuing with it but > otherwise, what is the value of it over sf.net (which now develops > and uses https://incubator.apache.org/projects/allura.html), gnu > savannah, javaforge etc? Well, there are a few things we can add/provide that other sites may not wish too. For example, fedmsg integration or (once we have it up) badges. To some extent I think the audience for fedorahosted is different (although perhaps overlapping with) github and the like. fedorahosted is setup for a more 'traditional' open source project, where github is setup for a more rapid/free flowing model. kevin
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