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12.

What are other important issues in IFHOSP?

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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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Alvin Usage agreements - the IFHOSP must be very careful in terms of what they are and aren't allowed to do with the code on their site. Sites that have statements such as "hosting your project here grants the site owners a nonexclusive, royalty free perpetual license to use the software" are not acceptable.
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12.8 Anyone wanting to setup an IFHOSP needs to be aware of the responsibility involved
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Luke Anyone wanting to setup an IFHOSP needs to be aware of the responsibility involved. They must be open and honest with their users so that if a problem is growing, that the users are not blindsided.
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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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Luke Anyone wanting to setup an IFHOSP needs to be aware of the responsibility involved. They must be open and honest with their users so that if a problem is growing, that the users are not blindsided.
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12.11 The acronym IFHOSP is pointlessly obscure
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Troy (I think the acronym IFHOSP is pointlessly obscure)
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Chris 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... :-)
Mark how about "host"?
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Freshmeat , SourceForge
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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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Mark developing a coherent, reasonable plan for expanding the site into a "federation" or mirror-network of multiple sites, not all of which are under the original site-owner's control. central points of failure (and administrative control) make programmers suspicious.
Jacob How to build a robust system that scales across the entire internet, and allows for concurrent development in the face of network partitions.
Comment made in round 2
Phil yes, but there is a need for a good synchronisation effort
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12.5 Fair to all efforts
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Dave Needs to be fair to all open source efforts.
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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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Phil keeping up to date with what's going on (e.g. new projects, dead projects, novel techniques, etc.)
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Terence "Novel" is not as important as standards
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12.6 Giving hosts of IFHOSP sites every credit that they deserve
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Luke Users must be aware that an IFHOSP is taking on a great burden and that they must give them all the credit possible.
Comment made in round 2
Chris 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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12.2 Maintaining a commitment to hosting only those projects which are under a sufficiently liberal license.
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Mark maintaining a commitment to hosting only those projects which are under a sufficiently liberal license.
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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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Mark possible loss of control over own work. administrators must be completely "hands off" the development, and always provide complete mirroring/withdrawl paths for users of the site.
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12.7 IFHOSP sites need to focus on maximising productivity
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Noah With sites like SourceForge, there is little need to set up your own infrastructure for an Open Source project. You can focus on more productive things, like the improvement of your favourite piece of software.
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SourceForge
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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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Mark using the site as a "marketing tool" to encourage non-free software developers to try developing in the open, under a good license.
Phil trying to get more attention from commercial world
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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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Mark possible extra "collaboration" with unwanted parties ("back-seat programmers", trolls). ability to operate private or semi-private developer groups necessary.

clarification: the ability to have private groups is a necessity _imposed_ by the negative factor of participation by unwanted extra developers. the ability to have private groups is _not_ a negative result of using the IFHOSP site itself.
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12.12 Big IFHOSP are bad (e.g. Freshmeat) Small IFHOSP are good.
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Leslie Cannot speak for other ours are small is good big is bad
freshmeat is to big for instance and the fun of helping people
mak their software available.
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Freshmeat
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