Well Shawn, first you need a small website, or a section of your website to represent your project on the internet. A mailing list would be sufficient since most of the developers working on the project with you would likely prefer that way of communication. Later you might want to add a forum and/or a bugzilla to be able to track user bug reports and present the teams progress in fixing them. a public access svn/cvs would be important, also a developer only svn/cvs with usernames and passwords and a set of maintainers to inspect the submitted code. All that said, you could post it on SourceForge and have all this functionality ... and a lot less flexibility and speed. Now depending on the size of the release package of your project, downloading might never become a big problem, but even with larger downloads, you could allways offer a bittorrent to download, it solves a lot of problems.
Cheers Szemir On November 18, 2007 00:40, Shawn wrote: > Hi all. > > I've been plugging away on a personal project, and am slowly nearing the > time when I'd like to make it public. I was thinking about making this > an open source project, and inviting/allowing others to contribute. I > know I'll need a website, and probably a public repository, forums, and > bug reporting tool. I can set up each of these, but am looking for some > guidance on if these are really needed. > > A quick search of google for "setting up an open source project" didn't > yield much useful. So I'm looking for opinions... > > What services would you expect an open source project to provide (web, > forums, SVN, etc.). What would you be looking for as a user of the > project? As a developer? > > Any tips/comments appreciated. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
