I’ve been wanting to provide something to the community for resurrecting the best damn OS that once was.
I’ve been coding together a sourceforge like site for haiku applications. The site is coded in php with a mysql backend from scratch and is coming along very nicely so far. Please note that I am mostly working on the backend code right now so the gui may be a little ugly till it’s done
I hope to have project svn access coded in soon to allow developers svn access Also in the future i would like to have a .haikuforge.net style project site information.
P.S. the site is far from complete, so take it easy on me.
Personally though, I would prefer to have one site for developing Haiku applications. Right now, I believe the best place is OSDrawer ( http://www.osdrawer.net ).
I believe BeOS/Haiku source code is all over the place now, on individual sites, on SourceForge, on Berlios, on OSDrawer, etc. I hope that one day we can have one, central site to make it easier to find the source code and get people to contribute.
hahaha, yeah i did not know about the osdrawer site until i’d already coded quite a bit of the site. I looked into using gforge and even GNU’s Savannah but the both did not operate like I think they should.
I think I am going to push forward and finish off the application. I think my site has the advantage of not using the crazily overly heavy gforge application. Gforge is all well and good for a site like sourceforge, but in my opinion i’ts too bloated for a single operating system development platform. If my site fails and the masses go to osdrawer, then i’ll release the sites code open source. That way, no matter what the end result everyone wins.
I just checked out haikuforge for fun. Very nice. Good job, it’s an attractive website and being single purpose should be great for its proposed function.
Development has slowed a bit but progress is still being made on the back end. Creating php code to manage svn repositories is harder then it looks!
Anyway. I just received a donation of a free SSL certificate from GoDaddy and implemented it today so Firefox would stop freaking out.
I’ve kind of been taking the underwear gnome mentality to developing the site (https://haikuforge.net/images/Gnomes_plan.png), and have backed myself into a few coding corners. No worries though, there is profit.
