Re: Apple Opens Up: Kernel, Mac OS Forge, iCal Server, Bonjour, Launchd

On Aug 8, 2006, at 6:22 AM, Lance Westerhoff wrote:

> This would be worth emailing Ernest about.  His statement below,  
> from the original announcement on darwin-dev@apple suggests that  
> MacOSForge.org would be available for OpenDarwin.org projects.   
> Perhaps there is some mechanism that needs to be implemented yet,  
> or perhaps we are missing something....
>
>> Mac OS Forge, a new community site hosted by Apple, is being  
>> created to support WebKit and other open source projects focused  
>> on Mac OS X, especially those looking to transition from  
>> OpenDarwin.org.
>
> I just emailed Ernest the following bullet points:
>
> (1) The mechanism for adding new projects, and whether commit  
> access will be granted for accounts.

Yes, we're still sorting out the details, but the plan is for  
projects to extend commit access to members of the community, as the  
WebKit project has already done.

> (2) A timeline for these services to come online (ie: certainly  
> MacOSForge.org is a new site, so it is certainly understandable if  
> things are taking time to get up and running).

Sorry we can't provide a specific timeline, but rest assured we'll be  
adding content to the site as soon as possible.

> (3) When clicking on http://collaboration.macosforge.org/ one is  
> forwarded to http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration  
> which seems to suggest that trac will be available for project  
> management.  Will this be the case?

Yes, we plan to emphasize Subversion and Trac for projects hosted at  
Mac OS Forge.

- Kevin