Hal Fulton wrote:

> RAA has always been about metadata, and Rubyforge is about hosting.
> 
> I'm just talking about increasing the tie between them -- encourage
> every RAA project owner to host on RF.
> 
> They'd still be separate entities that way, but the centrality of
> Rubyforge would mean no broken links unless that server went down.

Perhaps we can get RubyForge to export a metadata file (in, say XFML, or 
XTM , or maybe some RDF thing, something that can transport the basic 
info, is easily aggregated, plays well with XPath/XQuery,  etc.) that 
RAA understands.

If you host an app on RubyForge, then you need never maintain anything 
on RAA; the metadata feed has your project info.

If you prefer to host someplace else, then give RAA a link to your own 
metadata feed.

If that doesn't work for you, then maintain the metadata directly in the 
RAA.


James