[erlang-questions] Trapexit Open Source Erlang Project Crawler

[Péter Szilágyi]

Actually SourceForge also has Bazaar... I remember because it was a pain to add :P

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From: "Dmitry Vasiliev" <dima@REDACTED>
To: "Péter Szilágyi" <peter.szilagyi@REDACTED>
Cc: "Erlang Questions Mailinglist" <erlang-questions@REDACTED>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 7:14:19 PM GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal
Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Trapexit Open Source Erlang Project Crawler

Péter Szilágyi wrote:
> Currently there aren't any plans on extending the crawler. If there
> is need for it we could consider it, but after a quick look through,
> I've found only 21 Erlang projects on Launchpad, many of which are
> already hosted elsewhere too. Should that number rise I'd be willing
> to extend it, but for a handful of projects I don't think the
> benefits outweigh the "costs" (development + maintenance time).
> 
> Still if you have a very good reason why I should implement it, I'm
> looking forward to hearing it :).

The main reason that Launchpad is the only hosting site which support 
Bazaar DVCS (http://bazaar-vcs.org/en/). Currently Bazaar users feel 
yourself orphaned in the Erlang world. :-)

Maybe it's still a good idea to release the crawler as open source if 
you need help with development/maintenance? Or you can just open some 
"plugin API" so for example I can create an Erlang module(s) which 
implements crawler logic for Launchpad.

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