on Mon Jul 18 2011, Thomas Heller <thom.heller-AT-googlemail.com> wrote:
The best thing about these hosting services is that they publish their software as open source. github and gitorious provide free access to their software running the service (I don't know of the others) ....
My point is, there's no reason for Boost to spend its resources or attention on this; there are plenty of professionally-run services giving it away for free.
Right; but there is one thing that the current sandbox provides.. Boost topical locality. All the code in there is specifically for Boost in some form. And hence it's a bit easier for visitors to find new things in it. Which is what was brought up in other posts.. Of trying to not do our own central hosting, yet keep a nice central "index" / "catalog" location.
... How about getting the software and host a boost like github/svnhub/mercurialhub whatever (provided we have the necessary ressources)?
I am strongly opposed to hosting anything that we can get someone else to host. System administration is a huge...I'd say "time-waster," but I know it isn't pure waste... let's say, time-spender. In technological terms, I don't want to be anyone's major customer unless we have very specialized needs. I want the problems we have to be the same ones the service's whole client base is having, so that pressure to get things fixed is not just from/for us. -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com