Scripting Project Infrastructure

I've been busy with RL work and such for a while, and just recently found time to start playing (and hacking) in SL again. Here's a thought that started bouncing around my head while I was away:

"Gosh, it'd be nice to have an easy way to set up mailing lists and shared source control for SL projects!"

Anyone else out there see any value in something like this? I hate to call it "SourceForge for Second Life projects," but I guess that's what I'm talking about. I'd likely start with some fairly simple services, e.g.

- Subversion repository
- Mailing lists
- Project status pages
- Email address forwarders for project members

Would a service like this help folks collaborate on SL-related projects? Or are folks more inclined to build their own infrastructure?

i like sourceforge and i like the SL edition idea, my only thought against someone (not me) setting up a system like this, is the sourceforge syndrome...

2 out of every 3 projects is and has been dead, no contact info, no homepage, no documentation saying this is exactly what your looking for, or this is trash dont bother.

and

sourceforge is littered with "omg this WILL be the coolest project ever!!! updated last: june 1997"

I wish you good luck with it, and hope you get some positive feedback for your idea. i would use it

Osgeld, that's definitely true. In fact, I'm probably responsible for one or two of those orphaned SourceForge projects myself. I think, however, that the possiblity of orphaned projects is a reasonable price to pay for easy access to this sort of useful infrastructure. If the barrier of entry for new projects is too high, or if the continued existence of a project is contingent upon constant updates, I think it removes a fair amount of the potential value of such a service.

i agree, but if its handled like jonny on the spot the pileup wont be nearly as bad. just something to think about in the future, you dont want to be stuck years later goin oh man theres alot of stuff to clean out...