How to track projects (was: [Freegis-list] seagis)

[Bernhard Reiter]

Probably a topic more suited for the team list,
as it is a side issue here. It applies to all Free Software project.

AFAIK there is no easy standard for Free Software projects.
There are good practices, though. 
Some hints are in the Software-Release-HOWTO:
	http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-Release-Practice-HOWTO/communication.html#ANNOUNCE

We hope that Free Software projects dealing with GIS
find FreeGIS a special interest group of high value and 
announce major versions with NEWS to the freegis-list@ directly
or minors version releases to team at freegis.org.
This would help us with maintenance.

	Bernhard


On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:38:49AM +0100, Walter Harms wrote:
> there a different solutions depending who deep you like to go. At one end
> there is *.lsm (convention with ibiblio.org) 

> The other end of the spectra is CVS (and friends) that allows you to get
> snapshots and individual files etc from a common server.
> 
> Please tell us more about what you want. Inform berhand ? i guess
> the *lsm is ok.  Or should he place a link to your CVS-server
> (webcvs). So ppl can look at it (i guess berhand will like this :)

> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Original Message - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> From: Allan Doyle <adoyle at intl-interfaces.com>
> Subject: Re: [Freegis-list] seagis
> Date: 03/02/02 21:41
> 
> On Saturday 2002-03-02 at 17:04:48(+0100) Bernhard Reiter wrote:
>  > I've boosted the version number of freegis' seagis entry.
> 
> This makes me wonder. Is there some convention for software projects
> that can encode the status of the project (version #, comments, URL,
> maintainers, etc.) that could always be in a specific place for each
> project?
> 
> Sort of like the RSS news syndication spec. 
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