[PyKDE] pykde.sourceforge.net

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 16 January 2003 2:59 pm, Jonathan Gardner wrote:
> On Thursday 16 January 2003 05:13, Michael Lauer wrote:
> > Am Mit, 2003-01-15 um 23.05 schrieb Torsten Marek:
> > > What is the future of pyke.sf.net, because I want to know if it is
> > > possible to place some little programs I happened to write on that
> > > page. By now, I do not have my own page and I wouldn't like to create
> > > one. So it would be nice if there was a section of programs with links
> > > and/or direct downloads.
> >
> > Yeah, I second this. I have a bunch of (hopefully resuable) PyQt widgets
> > which I could publish and would be interested in seeing other ones.
>
> <snip>
>
> > Who is in charge of pykde at sf.net?
>
> This is really neat. I am in charge of pykde.sf.net, at least the
> administration part. I think it would be great to have this stuff on the
> site. It is no problem at all to put your programs in the downloads
> section.
>
> Here are the options, and what is holding back each one. If someone has
> something they can donate (time or servers) to get one of these going, let
> me know and I'll work with you.
>
> Option one is to have some sort of system where one could sign up, post
> scripts, rate other's scripts, comments on each other's scripts, offer
> patches, etc..., all hosted on SourceForge. This would be a lot of work,
> and it needs to be written in PHP. I can't help with this because I don't
> know PHP, I don't have the time to learn it, nor the time to implement
> something with it. If anyone knows PHP, or wants to learn it, and has time
> to do the development, let me know and I'll help get you set up.
>
> Option two is to host your scripts somewhere else that already is in
> existence, most likely at a python script warehouse, or a Qt or KDE program
> warehouse. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a site that I personally enjoy
> and find useful, so there is no place that I can suggest for this. If
> anyone knows of a good site, let me know.
>
> Option three is to use someone's web server, install mod_perl with apache,
> and get a real solution together, not this PHP stuff that SourceForge
> requires us to use. I would enjoy doing a lot of development work putting
> together an interactive website. The only downside is that we need to find
> someone with a suitable server.
>
> Those are the three long tem solutions I am looking at. The most realistic
> and the best option in my opinion is the first one. However, I myself
> cannot implement it. If anyone else has any other ideas, let me know.
>
> In the meantime, if you want to see your source code on sourceforge, send
> me your code and a brief description of what your software does and why it
> is cool. I'll talk with the current webmaster and see what we can do with
> it.

I can offer web space, but there is still the problem that a front end needs 
to be coded up. I have the skills, but not the time.

Phil