[tdwg-tag] LSID Sourceforge URL & LSID Best Practices

Dave Vieglais vieglais at ku.edu
Wed Aug 26 19:57:37 CEST 2009


See also:

https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sitelegal/wiki/Terms%20of 
%20Use#a4.NOUNLAWFULORPROHIBITEDUSE


On Aug 26, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Bob Morris wrote:

> Forgive me if this has already been mentioned:
>
> The Google Terms of Service contain the text
>
> "Users residing in countries on the United States Office of Foreign
> Assets Control sanction list, including Cuba, Iran, Libya, North
> Korea, Sudan and Syria, may not post or access Content available
> through the Google Code website."
>
> Residents of which, if any, of these countries are ineligible to be
> TDWG members?
>
> --Bob
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Roderic Page<r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk>  
> wrote:
>> I suspect that what's executing isn't needed (from memory the web  
>> site
>> was somewhat over designed).
>>
>> SourceForge drives me nuts, Google Code is much simpler (and there  
>> are
>> some neat features such as web hooks, wikis for entering
>> documentation, etc.).
>>
>> I vote we move it to a site that actually works, and is easy to use
>> (i.e., not SourceForge).
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rod
>>
>>
>>
>> On 26 Aug 2009, at 18:06, Dave Vieglais wrote:
>>
>>> Looks like the site lsids.sourceforge.net is trying to execute
>>> something. If that's the case, then I don't believe moving to google
>>> code is going to help as I'm pretty sure they don't provide a
>>> hosting service (that will run CGIs for example).
>>>
>>> The first thing that really needs to be done is one of the project
>>> developers/admins should log in to the project through the source
>>> forge shell service and take a look at how the web site is setup.
>>> Then figure out if the site can be modified to continue working
>>> under sourceforge or if an alternative hosting service needs to be
>>> found.
>>>
>>> Admins of the source forge project are listed right on the source
>>> forge project page ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/lsids/ 
>>> develop ):
>>>
>>>       • bhszekel-oss
>>>       • kevin_richards
>>>       • scachett
>>>       • timrobertson100
>>>
>>>
>>> To log in using a shell account:
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Shell%20service
>>>
>>> Then, when someone figures out the problem and solution, document it
>>> someplace and put it under source control.
>>>
>>> Hope this is of some help.
>>>
>>> Dave V.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 26, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Aaron Steele wrote:
>>>
>>>> I haven't heard an update on this, although I do think that Google
>>>> Code is the right tool for the job here.
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Roderic Page<r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Did anybody make a decision about moving to Google Code? How about
>>>>> we do
>>>>> this ASAP as the fact we can't keep http://lsids.sourceforge.net
>>>>> running is
>>>>> making us look more than a little foolish.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd be happy to move stuff across so long as however is an admin
>>>>> on the
>>>>> SourceForge account is on the ball and approves using the same
>>>>> name...
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Rod
>>>>>
>>>>> On 16 Aug 2009, at 00:16, Aaron Steele wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Are there any non-US countries that offer services like Google  
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> Sourceforge but don't distinguish based on the host address?
>>>>>>> Users in
>>>>>>> these countries can easily get around these restrictions anyway
>>>>>>> using
>>>>>>> Tor for instance, but that isn't the point.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have no knowledge of viable non-US project hosting services.
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>>>>>
>>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Roderic Page
>>>>> Professor of Taxonomy
>>>>> DEEB, FBLS
>>>>> Graham Kerr Building
>>>>> University of Glasgow
>>>>> Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
>>>>>
>>>>> Email: r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>
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>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>> Roderic Page
>> Professor of Taxonomy
>> DEEB, FBLS
>> Graham Kerr Building
>> University of Glasgow
>> Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
>>
>> Email: r.page at bio.gla.ac.uk
>> Tel: +44 141 330 4778
>> Fax: +44 141 330 2792
>> AIM: rodpage1962 at aim.com
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>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/rdmpage
>> Blog: http://iphylo.blogspot.com
>> Home page: http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/rod.html
>>
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