Re: ImageJ + SourceForge

Posted by Steve Milner-2 on Oct 11, 2005; 10:53pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/ImageJ-SourceForge-tp3704686p3704699.html

Good Day Michael and List,
 
I in no way meant to insinuate change control to another person. If the project was hosted at sourceforge Wayne would still have control over all it's aspects. Wayne Rasband has and am sure will do an excellent job, no doubt about that. From an open source software developer standpoint it can be harder to get involved in projects that don't have some way of source control to base patches and enhancements off of.
 
Steve

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From: ImageJ Interest Group on behalf of Abramoff-Michael
Sent: Tue 10/11/2005 4:49 PM
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Subject: Re: ImageJ + SourceForge



Everyone is always free to contribute source code to ImageJ, I do. In my opinion ImageJ is a tool for the biomedical imaging community. ImageJ is not about development, nor a tool for developers.
I think the overseeing by Wayne Rasband, who has been doing this for a very long time, is essential.
Moving it to sourceforge or similar would probably emphasize new tools but de-emphasize documentation, manuals, user community etc.

My opinion only.


Michael Abramoff

Michael D. Abràmoff, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology / Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, PFP 11290C
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USA

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-----Original Message-----
From: ImageJ Interest Group [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Steve Milner
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 3:39 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: ImageJ + SourceForge

Good Day List,

I was wondering if there has ever been any talk about moving the development of ImageJ to SourceForge.net? Two things that seem to be missing in the ImageJ project are CVS and the ability to attract other developers to lend a hand. SourceForge helps solve both of these problems. The website, mailing list, etc.. could remain at NIH.Gov, while development of the application would point to SF CVS. It would also remove the bandwidth stress from NIG.Gov and put it on the list of mirrors at SF.

If nothing else, will there ever be source control inplace so that others can follow development and even submit back patches and improvements?

Thanks,
Steve Milner