Joel and I are somewhere on the I-10 in Arizona. Its late and Im tired but figured this might wake me up. I had a thought on the SVN setup the community currently uses. While I appreciate the work Arena has put into the svn hosting service we currently use, and I always hate to admit that Microsoft ever did anything right, I wonder if it makes good sense to move our indivual stuff over to Codeplex. The current system really doesnt allow for the integration of discussions, patches, and bug tracking that codeplex does. As well codeplex puts the access control into the hands of the church so we don't have to ask the Arena guys to do anything.

It seems like it would be easy to setup a single High Desert Church project with categories for the small projects. If we do a large project, like CCCEVs check-in system, it can become its own project. But now I have everything in version control and can easily take feature requests or even have people submit ready-to-go patches that I simply merge into trunk.

Personally, I find the bug tracker and discussion section to be of the most use. Having a spot to populate bugs that I have found that I need to fix at somepoint, or bugs that others have found, is a valuable resource to development.

The one question I think I need to answer before I propose this is to find out if a project can be private so it either does not show up, or at least limits who has access to get to the code. I can see some cases where somebody might not want the code available but wants to take advantage of discussions and bug reports. I will have to ask Nick or Jason about that since they already have a project up.