[Pugged] GForge 3.0

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Tim Perdue <tim@perdue.net> said:

> I finally decided to fork SourceForge, since VA closed their source
over 
> a year ago. I think a sourceforge-like tool is widely-needed and it's 
> important to maintain an open source version.
> 
> My new project, GForge 3.0, is based on the last publicly-available 
> sourcecode, SF2.6.1, and is available at http://gforge.org/
> 
> I'm looking for help, obviously, in maintaining and enhancing it, 
> particularly in building a more powerful project management tool.
> 

Just curious what the licensing of GForge is? I assumed the "G" stands
for GNU, but I didn't see anything on your web site about it.

On the features side... I know you mentioned once that you had written
your own database abstraction. Does GForge use this, and if so, is it
thoretically possible to run on different databases? Nothing against
Postgres, I'm just not very familiar with it.

For the planned features, the palm-pilot sync sounds interesting for
people who aren't always on the 'net.

Outlook sync'ing would be useful for those who use Outlook... but in
my experience, a large % of open source developers don't use Outlook.

Bryan's mentioned before that the calendar spec used by Apple's
iCalendar is an open spec. BB, do you know if that's been implemented
by other systems (Besides Mac OS) yet - enough that it would be
something useful for GForge to export to?

-dc