# What do we want to add to RubyForge (was: RubyForge in Ruby?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-do-we-want-to-add-to-rubyforge-was-rubyforge-in-ruby/64379>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [June 25, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-do-we-want-to-add-to-rubyforge-was-rubyforge-in-ruby/64379 "2006-06-25T01:46:55Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 1:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-do-we-want-to-add-to-rubyforge-was-rubyforge-in-ruby/64379/1 "2006-06-25T01:46:55Z")

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Folks,

I started this thread… please let me take a shot at summarizing  
people’s  
points:

- Rewriting GForge in Ruby for RubyForge is a waste of time and a  
religious persuit because it splits the development of an existing,  
well  
supported product in two and that’s not good for a bunch of well  
stated  
reasons.
- There are things that are less than optimal about GForge, it’d be  
nice if these things could be added:
  - Publishing gems is not as streamlined as it could be
  - It’d be nice to have source browsing
  - Certain other features from Trac would be nice
  - (my personal comments) It’s clunky to run surveys and there’s  
no built-in chat and there’s no iCal integration (e.g., when did  
we release stuff, what’s upcoming to do on my calendar, etc.)
  - Put your code where your mouth is (I plan to, but I wanted to  
understand from others what the upsides and downsides were)

- Did I miss something?

So…

Please send me a list of things people want to add to RubyForge. I’ll  
do  
the following:

- Aggregate the input items so there’s a list of what people want
- Look at the GForge schema to see how hard it would be to put a  
Rails  
app (or a series of Rails apps) on the ‘side’ of GForge so that if we  
add,  
for example, Ruport based reporting or Trac-style issue tracking, how  
hard  
the actual process of integrating that with a GForge single sign-on  
would be  
and also what the additional burden would be on Tom and Richard.
- On Friday, I’ll publish the “top 10 list” and the “how hard it  
would  
be to add these features beside GForge” lists.

So, you all, please send me your wish list publicly or privately.

Thanks,

David

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**Author:** ![dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dpitman)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 2:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-do-we-want-to-add-to-rubyforge-was-rubyforge-in-ruby/64379/2 "2006-06-25T02:39:17Z")

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Darcs support.

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**Author:** ![dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dpitman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dpitman)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-do-we-want-to-add-to-rubyforge-was-rubyforge-in-ruby/64379/3 "2006-06-25T03:15:51Z")

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David P. wrote:

> we add,  
> for example, Ruport based reporting or Trac-style issue tracking,  
> how hard  
> the actual process of integrating that with a GForge single sign-on  
> would be  
> and also what the additional burden would be on Tom and Richard.
> 
> - On Friday, I’ll publish the “top 10 list” and the “how hard it would  
> be to add these features beside GForge” lists.
> 
> So, you all, please send me your wish list publicly or privately.  
> I guess I’ll take a look at RubyForge, list all the things I’m _not_  
> likely to use with any of my 1-5 person projects, and give you my top  
> ten list of things that I’d like to see _removed_. Although, when all is  
> said and – undone – the end result is likely to resemble, for some  
> strange reason, BaseCamp.

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**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-do-we-want-to-add-to-rubyforge-was-rubyforge-in-ruby/64379/4 "2006-06-28T19:39:59Z")

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On 6/24/06, David P. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Folks,
> 
> Please send me a list of things people want to add to RubyForge.

- Ugly interface of RubyForge. The “tabs” browsing at the top has to go,  
especially how clicking “Home” will take you out of the current project  
you  
are browsing completely and put you on the home page for the site, not  
the  
home page for the project.
- Search on RubyForge is terrible. Searching ‘software/group’ is very  
limited. It’d be nice if that searched a wider variety of information  
than  
just the title and description of projects
- Automatic RDOC of source code checked in, possibly even used as the  
"default’ project page. A much better default than “Coming soon!”
- What is the Trove software map? I’ve never seen anything categorize  
itself. Is it useful?
- Search drop down changes its options when you browse into a project,  
versus when you are on the home page for ruby forge. Confusing.
- If you have to log in while entering a new issue, forum post, etc. the  
site should remember where you were and what you had typed prior to  
login.
- As others have said, a clearer means for releasing ruby gems.

Thanks for taking the time to gather this info, and good luck with the  
project!

Justin

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**Post date:** [June 28, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-do-we-want-to-add-to-rubyforge-was-rubyforge-in-ruby/64379/5 "2006-06-28T03:00:56Z")

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On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 09:37 +0900, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:

> Darcs support.

git also.

-mental

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**Post date:** [June 29, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-do-we-want-to-add-to-rubyforge-was-rubyforge-in-ruby/64379/6 "2006-06-29T06:49:14Z")

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On 6/28/06, MenTaLguY [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 09:37 +0900, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:
> 
> > Darcs support.
> 
> git also.
> 
> -mental

+1

Michal

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**Post date:** [June 30, 2006, 11:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-do-we-want-to-add-to-rubyforge-was-rubyforge-in-ruby/64379/7 "2006-06-30T11:56:00Z")

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“Michal S.” [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) writes:

> On 6/28/06, MenTaLguY [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 09:37 +0900, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote:
> > 
> > > Darcs support.
> > 
> > git also.
> > 
> > -mental
> 
> +1

Providing the git server probably won’t be easy in on a server with  
lots of users, but if rsync was possible, darcs and git (and  
mercurial, and bzr) could be done easily, at least for pulling.  
(Usually, you want the pushable core repository locally anyway.)