On 1/12/06, Ken Causey ken@kencausey.com wrote:
I'm certainly happy to set you up with some squeak.org hostname but I wonder if this wouldn't be even more confusing than the current situation. I would expect to find the source of Squeak itself at source.squeak.org rather than that of external packages.
In the light of the debates around 'forking', the move to a split between "package maintainers" and "distribution builders", etcetera, I don't think it is too important where packages are hosted. Nor do I think that we can really keep up a sensible distinction between "external" and "internal" packages - look at Monticello, RefactoringBrowser, OmniBrowser, Traits, etcetera. So I'm not really subscribing to that argument to keep two repositories.
source.squeakfoundation.org was setup because we thought we might need a different authorization protocol, or whatever - to give us the freedom to hack the sources. However, as far as I know (I'm not too deeply involved with that squeaksource instance), this hasn't happened. 'inbox' and 'v39a' could run just as well on kilana.unibe.ch as on box2.squeakfoundation.org.
with an eye towards network effects and reduced maintenance load on the community, it might be wise to merge both setups and call the result 'source.squeak.org'...