vicente.botet wrote:
I have experience with self-organised community of OSGeo Foundation (http://osgeo.org, http://wiki.osgeo.org) which could be compared to Boost as domain-specific (GIS/RS/geo*) community. OSGeo accepts projects by conducting incubation process similar to Boost reviews. Shortly, there is a bunch of projects projects living under the umbrella of OSGeo. Each project gets its own instance of: - overview website at project.osgeo.org or it is a subdomain which points to project own website.
Currently missing in Boost.
- Trac/Wiki at trac.osgeo.org/project/
Available on request.
- SVN: at svn.osgeo.org/project/
Already available.
- mailing lists at lists.osgeo.org
Available on request.
There are some concerns, actually. For example, our Trac is a bit too slow at times. As of recent, the amount of spam that hits boost-build mailing list is going through the rough, presumably due to no filtering. Further, I don't think it's documented who I am supposed to talk with about those issues. And even if it were documented, I believe that would be a system administrator at OSL -- and I would not be comfortable bothering a person who is already doing us a courtesy. It probably would be great if Boost had a dedicated server managed by a couple of folks from the active community. - Volodya