PortletSwap is more than a link/download directory for portlets, it is a living, breathing community of portlet developers exchanging ideas and the occasional software.
Why host with PortletSwap?
Hosting your portlet project on PortletSwap.com grants you higher visibility and exposure to the community. This benefit allows you to enjoy more community involvement in your project, by increased code contributions, wiki and forums participation.
The PortletSwap infrastructure provides the following for your project:
JIRA - JIRA allows you to manage your project tasks, bugs, roadmaps, and features.
Forums - For communicating with your community.
Wiki - A knowledgebase for managing documentation and general information regarding your project.
Subversion Code Repository - SVN access for managing your project's codebase.
Exposure - Listed on the PortletSwap portlet catalog and as a subproject of PortletSwap.
There are several examples currently of successful portlet projects hosted on the JBoss.org infrastructure, such as JBoss Wiki and Kosmos.
Send requests to host your project on PortletSwap to roy@jboss.org. The JBoss Portal team evaluates every request.