Re: [Darwine] Re: [Vote] Moving to OpenDarwin.org

[Chris S. <Ca...@pa...>]

First and foremost, have we contacted the core team over at OpenDarwin 
to see if they would consider our project?  We should also verify what 
services do and don't offer.

	That said I believe that in the long run, this project would benefit 
from a collaborative effort between our own developers and those 
already developing Darwin and hopefully Apple employees developing Mac 
OS X.  I agree with Emmanuel that here at Sourceforge we appear to be a 
little overshadowed by the masses of other projects.  I believe that 
mac/darwin developers, not necessarily the general public, would have 
an easier time finding us at OpenDarwin.  Gavers, did you find us 
simply searching the projects at Sourceforge or did you here about us 
from some of the announcements, i.e. Slashdot, 4OSX, MacBytes, or 
others?  However we must not think too much of ourselves, by thinking 
we will become the star project at OpenDarwin.  This will bring 
resentment from the developers there and we will find ourselves no 
better off.

	While I haven't looked up the differences in the hosting services, I 
do know that I have been unable to access our site a few times from 
Sourceforge.  Jim, I am not saying OpenDarwin wasn't down, but it is 
back up now and seems to be functional.

	Now for the other side.  We are currently established here at 
Sourceforge.  This is where our forums, website, and this very mailing 
list are based.  Furthermore, all information thus far has directed 
users to the Sourceforge site, it's somewhere they are used to coming.  
If we change hosting services we will have to announce the move ahead 
of time to inform visitors of our intentions.

So in summary I'll leave my vote open while we actually think and 
debate this.


Pros:
	- Mac Developer Community
	- Room to develop

Cons:
	- Relocation changes, i.e. site address, list address