looking for a new home for PDF4Smalltalk

> Origo, the home of the open source PDF implementation, is going to be
> switched off by the end of May.
>
> While the source code of the VW implementation is in the public
> repository of Cincom (with increasing doubts about the safety of the
> code after the long downtime lately), all the documentation is at Origo
> (http://pdf4smalltalk.origo.ethz.ch/) with wiki pages, a forum and a blog.
>
> Because Origo will be terminated, I am looking for a new place for the
> documentation and discussions (and possibly for the code of ports to
> other Smalltalk dialects).
>
> I looked around a bit, but nothing popped up as the perfect solution:
>
> - Google code lacks features (has wiki, but no forum or blog) and users
> are forced to uses their google account
>
> - Sourceforge has most features, but feels strange and is, like google,
> subject to the US internet blocking policies.
>
> - others are mainly for code and not well suited for documentation and
> collaboration
>
> Ideally, I’d love to have a place for Smalltalk projects in an
> open-internet country with a nice web UI in Smalltalk with all the
> important features:
>
> Wiki, Forum, Mailing lists, issue tracker, project management support etc.
>
> Super plus would be a web-based browser for Smalltalk code of all
> dialects!!!
>
> Any suggestions, anyone?
>
>
>
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> Origo, the home of the open source PDF implementation, is going to be
> switched off by the end of May.
>
> While the source code of the VW implementation is in the public
> repository of Cincom (with increasing doubts about the safety of the
> code after the long downtime lately), all the documentation is at
> Origo
> (http://pdf4smalltalk.origo.ethz.ch/) with wiki pages, a forum and a blog.
>
> Because Origo will be terminated, I am looking for a new place for the
> documentation and discussions (and possibly for the code of ports to
> other Smalltalk dialects).
>
> I looked around a bit, but nothing popped up as the perfect solution:
>
> - Google code lacks features (has wiki, but no forum or blog) and
> users are forced to uses their google account
>
> - Sourceforge has most features, but feels strange and is, like
> google, subject to the US internet blocking policies.
>
> - others are mainly for code and not well suited for documentation and
> collaboration
>
> Ideally, I’d love to have a place for Smalltalk projects in an
> open-internet country with a nice web UI in Smalltalk with all the
> important features:
>
> Wiki, Forum, Mailing lists, issue tracker, project management support etc.
>
> Super plus would be a web-based browser for Smalltalk code of all
> dialects!!!
>
> Any suggestions, anyone?
>
>
>
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> Andres,
>
> Just a question of interest: Why did you not use Store Replicator for the
> upgrade?
>
> Georg
>
> Georg Heeg eK, Dortmund und Köthen, HR Dortmund A 12812
> Wallstraße 22, 06366 Köthen
> Tel. +49-3496-214328, Fax +49-3496-214712
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] Im Auftrag
> von Andres Valloud
> Gesendet: Freitag, 16. März 2012 09:54
> An: [hidden email]
> Betreff: Re: [vwnc] looking for a new home for PDF4Smalltalk
>
> Christian, I thought I'd provide a few notes regarding the down time of the
> public Store repository.  During the upgrade, we found a bit of valid data
> that, due to changes in Postgresql, is now considered invalid.  The new
> Postgresql database refused to load these few bits of data, so unfortunately
> the upgrade wasn't a simple matter of dumping the old database and reading
> the dump into the new database.  After we migrated the data to the new
> expected format, we found a couple similar issues as well.  Dealing with a
> 3.5gb dump file containing a handful of problems somewhere, and doing it
> well, can be time consuming.  On the other hand, we are happy the resulting
> data is cleaner and easier to maintain.  Also, this work makes our public
> Store repository upgrade plans easier.
>
> On 3/16/2012 12:23 AM, Christian Haider wrote:
>> Origo, the home of the open source PDF implementation, is going to be
>> switched off by the end of May.
>>
>> While the source code of the VW implementation is in the public
>> repository of Cincom (with increasing doubts about the safety of the
>> code after the long downtime lately), all the documentation is at
>> Origo
>> (http://pdf4smalltalk.origo.ethz.ch/) with wiki pages, a forum and a blog.
>>
>> Because Origo will be terminated, I am looking for a new place for the
>> documentation and discussions (and possibly for the code of ports to
>> other Smalltalk dialects).
>>
>> I looked around a bit, but nothing popped up as the perfect solution:
>>
>> - Google code lacks features (has wiki, but no forum or blog) and
>> users are forced to uses their google account
>>
>> - Sourceforge has most features, but feels strange and is, like
>> google, subject to the US internet blocking policies.
>>
>> - others are mainly for code and not well suited for documentation and
>> collaboration
>>
>> Ideally, I’d love to have a place for Smalltalk projects in an
>> open-internet country with a nice web UI in Smalltalk with all the
>> important features:
>>
>> Wiki, Forum, Mailing lists, issue tracker, project management support etc.
>>
>> Super plus would be a web-based browser for Smalltalk code of all
>> dialects!!!
>>
>> Any suggestions, anyone?
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> vwnc mailing list
>> [hidden email]
>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwnc
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