Re: [PLUG] opensource question

[Jason <jason@nocks.com>]

On Tuesday 22 January 2002 18H:43, you wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 05:39:47PM -0500, epike@isinet.com wrote:
>
> > 2. Where to post it?
>
> freshmeat.net?
>
> > the only dilemna I am having right now is that the source
> > is not really that good, alhtough I am working on that
> > aspect.  (source code is about 1,800 lines, and loading
> > is completely monitorless/keyboardless operation)
>
> Putting it up some place like freshmeat and soliciting patches from
> other folks would be a good way to get some help cleaning that up.
>
> If this is something that other people have been thinking about
> doing (or have been doing in less automatic ways), as I suspect it
> is, you're liable to get a pretty good response.
>
> (You'll also see a some people who just download and use it without
> contributing, and then want you to provide support. The appropriate
> response to those people is, of course, to point out that you're
> glad to accept patches, but that your license states--and almost all
> open source ones do--that no warranty is expressed or implied, so
> you can't help them if you don't have time.)

Also, check out sourceforge.net. According to the latest Linux Journal (came 
in the mail yesterday), there were 29,253 projects hosted on sourceforge as 
of last November. I suspect that a good number of those projects have 
actually fallen inactive, though.

You may want to search for existing similar projects and see if there's some 
overlap.

Oh, and if the code is predominantly one or more Perl modules, there's also 
cpan.org (The Centralized Perl Archive Network - but you probably already 
knew that).

-Jason

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