Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] CIA Useful?

[Mike N. <mh...@us...>]

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 22:28, Greg Morgan wrote:
> This caught my eye. One of the problems with phpWebSite in my estimation
> is that information on modules, themes, and the core application are
> spread all over the place. Perhaps something like CIA could be used to
> aggregate third party changes and the main phpWebSite cvs commits.  Now
> that works for some of the larger module/theme projects that have CVS
> scripts implemented.  However, smaller projects may not be able to
> integrate into something like CIA since they may or may not be using
> CVS/SVN.
> https://cia.navi.cx/
> https://cia.navi.cx/doc
> https://cia.navi.cx/doc/adding-projects
> https://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/BZFlag
> https://cia.navi.cx/stats/author/davidtrowbridge

Greg,
I believe the Mediawiki project is utilizing CIA in #mediawiki on
irc.freenode.net.

Ideally, CIA would integrate with something like Launchpad. I've
advocated SF.net start looking at these features for inclusion in future
software updates.

        https://launchpad.net/

In the mean time, I'm trying to integrate phpwebsite-comm into
phpwebsite as a true subproject.

        Note: Other tasks have slowed my progress on this task. :-(

> Another option is something like http://planet.maemo.org/ or
> planet.phpWebSite.  In the case of CIA, it doesn't matter where the site
> is located.  The goal of CIA is to track multiple projects to see what's
> going on in general in all areas of the Open Source world.  The goal of
> a planet.phpWebSite is to aggregate multiple community feeds in one
> location.  There in lies another problem that I see with the phpWebSite
> community.  Where would something like a planet.phpWebSite be hosted?
> Depending on how a system like this works, there may not be enough web
> site/database space available to host planet.phpWebSite on sourceforge.
>  The college site looks like a good place to host something like this
> but, then there may be legal or political reasons that a
> plaent.phpWebSite cannot be hosted at phpwebsite.appstate.edu.

Wendall's phpwsrssfeeds module can aggregate multiple feeds. I'm not
sure if it achieves planet like functionality yet, but that's what I
requested. Also, I'm not sure of the port status to fallout.


> So how would the community do something like this?  Ok so some
> individual says they'll create the site.  The community will come to
> rely on the information and then one day poof the site is gone. For
> example, some phpWebSite hall of famers are now either just a parking
> domain out in the big Internet spewing add links, or the former useful
> phpWebSite related info is under a construction banner.
> http://www.phpgirl.net/
> http://www.phpgirl.org/
> http://www.shirka.org/
> Let's play where's Mike Winzor while we are at it too. ;-)  So how could
> the community do something like this so that it lives on past the
> initial curator?

That's one of the reasons I advocate SF.net or Savannah.gnu.org.


> I guess the larger question is how can the cohesiveness of the larger
> phpWebSite community be improved?  Would tools like these two listed
> above help? Is this a worthwhile endeavor?

I've attempted coalescing effort for years. I've had some success, but
not enough.

        To-Do: Learn to herd cats.

-- 
Mike Noyes <mhnoyes at users.sourceforge.net>
http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/
SF.net Projects: leaf, phpwebsite, phpwebsite-comm, sitedocs