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'Project' or Organisation'???
Hi,
I hope this is the right place for this question/guidance... I am wanting some sort of clarification and how my organisation's project should best be structured on Ohloh. If tl;dr then skip to the last paragraph...
In a nutshell I work for TurnKey Linux[1]. We are a company that that produces a product (also called TurnKey Linux) which entails a range of software appliances (downloadable as ISO or VM builds or launched via the cloud).
Our code is currently split into two GitHub accounts. Our 'main' GutHub account[2] houses the applications/software that we develop specifically for our software appliances (but are installable in Debian and Ubuntu; and theoretically in any Linux OS if built from source) . And then our other GitHub account[3] houses the build code for the software appliances themselves.
[1] https://www.ohloh.net/p/turnkeylinux
[2] https://github.com/turnkeylinux/
[3] https://github.com/turnkeylinux-apps/
I spent quite a bit of time yesterday adding all the appliance repos to the TurnKey Ohloh 'Project't as I think that it gives a nice indication of how the project as a whole is going. However this idea of 'Organisations' makes me wonder if perhaps my work was wasted? Perhaps it would be better to have an 'Organisation' called TurnKey Linux with the TurnKey Linux appliances (with all the appliance build code) as one 'Project' and then add all the software/applications that we develop as individual 'Projects' under the TurnKey Linux
'Organisation'?
I would love some input...
Cheers,
Jeremy
Jeremy,
I think you may be on the right track. The only reservation I would have is how much of the apps
are original work versus how much are the standard code base of the original project. If there is substantial contribution of your organization then no issue there. I can see, for example, that it may take a fair amount of changes to an app to make it suitable for hosting on an appliance. People can learn much from the changes.
Let me know once you have some example projects and I'll whip together the organization so you can see how the combination works.
Thanks!
