[Freeschool] Fwd: Re: [school-discuss] appindex

[Michael Shigorin]

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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 07:51:29 -0400
From: Doug Loss <drloss/suscom.net>
To: schoolforge-discuss/schoolforge.net
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] appindex

Michael Shigorin wrote:

>Les, Doug, Appindex is great just as it is.  I've seldom been in
>educational matters during last few years but when I were, went
>there too and it helped.
>
>Yes, software evolves and new projects are born but it's not
>invalidating the archive.
>
Thanks Michael.  As Les says, it won't be going away.  But it would 
still be nice to have the records there checked and updated 
occasionally.  There has been talk (mostly idle, mostly by me) over the 
years to make the AppIndex essentially a filter on a datafeed from 
FreshMeat, but nothing has ever been done toward that.  It would require 
the few projects we list that aren't on FreshMeat to get listed there or 
be removed from our index; I don't think that would be a great 
difficulty.  It would then give more accurate, current information on 
the various projects as presumably the FreshMeat entries are kept 
updated by the various project administrators where our entries are not.

Is anyone interested in working on this idea?

Doug Loss

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