Answer from Chris for Question 12

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What are other important issues in IFHOSP?

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12.1 Expanding an IFHOSP into multiple mirror sites to increase reliability and obtain more credibility from users
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12.2 Maintaining a commitment to hosting only those projects which are under a sufficiently liberal license.
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12.3 Using the site to promote the concept Open Software/Free Software to the commercial world and non-free software developers
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12.4 IFHOSP site should be careful on the usage agreements with users and provide them with enough freedom
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12.5 Fair to all efforts
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12.6 Giving hosts of IFHOSP sites every credit that they deserve
Comment: They certainly deserve credit, but beware: they have their own advantages in doing so, either reputation-wise or in a financial way.
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12.7 IFHOSP sites need to focus on maximising productivity
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12.8 Anyone wanting to setup an IFHOSP needs to be aware of the responsibility involved
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12.9 An IFHOSP should be run in an open fashion and users should be well informed
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12.10 An IFHOSP should be have up to date information of the site and employ novel techniques
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12.11 The acronym IFHOSP is pointlessly obscure
Comment: In question 12.12, I saw Freshmeat mentioned, while I was thinking of sites that hosts projects themselves, like SourceForge. I think of Freshmeat as a kind of Yahoo of projects, providing important things like categorizing and news related to open source projects. Thus, I answered things like "IFHOSP should not put too much emphasis on categorizing and news", because I was thinking that they should leave this kind of things to sites like Freshmeat. Now, if Freshmeat *is* an IFHOSP... :-)
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12.12 Big IFHOSP are bad (e.g. Freshmeat) Small IFHOSP are good.
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12.13 A remedy of the administrator(s) of IFHOSP interfering with the development of project(s) is to provide mirroring or withdrawal paths for users if they want to host their projects elsewhere
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12.14 Ability to operate private or semi-private developer groups necessary to avoid "collaboration" with unwanted parties
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