I have an existing open source project currently hosted on Sourceforge, that could be ported over to the Tablets. Should I start a new project page in Garage.maemo.org as a copy of the Sourceforge project page, or would it be better to just add the Maemo specific items to the main Sourceforge project page? Specifically, my project is a small scripting language I developed (called 2E) that is slowly aquiring a number of modules, including Gnome bindings. I'm planning on extending this to include Hildon specific bindings, from which we will get another app development environment for Maemo.
Now, if I go with a whole new project page on Garage, then it is quiet likely that the two svn repositories will get out of sync. Or I could put together a mimimal Garage page that will hold a copy of the released source & binaries, but continue to use Sourceforge for the svn repository. Finally, I could also host the Maemo-specific code (the Hildon bindings) on Garage, and keep everything else on Sourceforge. Which route would be the best?
Also, once I get my language tools ported, I'd like to start putting together some usefull apps. Is there a wiki that I've overlooked which has a list of the most requested app types? Initially I'm thinking of writting up a graphing programmable scientific calculator, a password safe, and maybe work on some ideas I've had for a pim suite.
Oh, and to answer the inevitable question of why bother porting another language instead of using Python -- I've design 2E to be really easy to learn & use, and it is light weight -- the main interpreter body is just over 1000 lines of code (not including the built-in function library). And choice is good, as they say.
Duplicating projects on Sourceforge and Garage seems very sub-optimal.
I'd concentrate on your existing location, and - to make sure you get the "karma" - make sure you have appropriate download entries in downloads.maemo.org, get a blog syndicated on planet.maemo.org, etc.
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Now, if I go with a whole new project page on Garage, then it is quiet likely that the two svn repositories will get out of sync. Or I could put together a mimimal Garage page that will hold a copy of the released source & binaries, but continue to use Sourceforge for the svn repository. Finally, I could also host the Maemo-specific code (the Hildon bindings) on Garage, and keep everything else on Sourceforge. Which route would be the best?
Also, once I get my language tools ported, I'd like to start putting together some usefull apps. Is there a wiki that I've overlooked which has a list of the most requested app types? Initially I'm thinking of writting up a graphing programmable scientific calculator, a password safe, and maybe work on some ideas I've had for a pim suite.
Oh, and to answer the inevitable question of why bother porting another language instead of using Python -- I've design 2E to be really easy to learn & use, and it is light weight -- the main interpreter body is just over 1000 lines of code (not including the built-in function library). And choice is good, as they say.
Thanks.