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On Tuesday 16 August 2005 6:07 pm, Darke, Clive wrote: > I have a utility program, written in C, which I think is vaguely useful. I > have tested it on various Unix flavours, and of course various Linux's with > no problems. I have written the doc and commented the code. What now? I > put the thing on SourceSafe ??? SourceForge - that's the place to be. > probably spent more time on that than writing it. It, BTW, is a Very Good Thing (TM) to spend lots of time on the PROJECT - including documentation, a website, manpage, packaging and more documentation. (Did I mention lots of documentation?) Oh and documentation on the website too. And in the tarball. Anywhere and everywhere, all the time, every circumstance, no excuses, no exceptions. So you need: 1. SourceForge project 2. Website (from 1 but make it HELPFUL, full of content and documentation). 3. Freshmeat project 4. Freshmeat documentation. 5. A file release on SF (for freshmeat) Without those, frankly, nobody will notice your program. > Any > suggestions? You won't get it into any distributions if maintainers can't find it so put it and maintainers do NOT go trawling around looking for programs! Put it where everyone looks for FLOSS: SourceForge and Freshmeat. Then join mailing lists for your favourite distribution packaging discussions and ASK. No-one has time to go looking for your program, it's your work, YOU need to promote it directly to those who can package it. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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