Making "upstream" tarballs available

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 17:56 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 14:21 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> > That's true.  Although there are a few things that hosted definitely
> > lacks before we're ready to take it out of beta.  Off the top of my head:
> > 
> > * free form web space.  That allows hosting yum repos for the projects,
> > download sites, non-trac-wiki space, etc.
> 
> Unless I'm mistaken currently the only way to put a tarball for a
> project on hosted.fp.o at the moment is to add the tarball as an
> attachment to Trac. 
> 
> That's a less than wonderful way to manage the tarballs especially when
> the SCM repository for the project is already on hosted.fp.o. It should
> be easy to create the tarball from the SCM and then export it on
> hosted.fp.o without a lot of gymnastics.

I think we can find a way to simplify this problem.

Thanks,
-sv