Re: Using SourceForge for GDP members

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:40:10PM -0500, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> What do people think of using SourceForge to host docs which GDP members
> want other GDP members to look over and give feedback on?  Some of us do
> not have easy access to a host to post our docs on.  SourceForge would
> give us a place to do this.  I don't think we would use any of
> SourceForge's other services, and we definitely would not move our web
> pages or any other permanent services to SourceForge.  It would just be an
> easy way for Joe-GDP-member to login and place his my-gnome-doc.html files
> on the net.  We would probably want this to be a site for temporary files
> only and have a policy of erasing any file which is older than, say, two
> months.
> 
> Dan
> 
> 

This seems like an effective solution to an ongoing problem.
   
Would there be maintenance issues? I've not used SourceForge - how are
permissions handled? Who has permission to upload files, modify them
and delete them?



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