Alternatives to SourceForge?
May 17, 2006 2:31 PM Subscribe
Alternatives to SourceForge?
Our open source project has been using SourceForge for project hosting for the past few years. The last 6 months, maybe more, have been real painful. CVS is down a lot, and when it's up, its behavior is quirky (segfaults, missing history, etc.). We're concerned about having all our code stored in an unreliable place.
I noticed there is BerliOS.de, and GNU Savannah. Are there others we should be looking at? Which is the best of them?
Our open source project has been using SourceForge for project hosting for the past few years. The last 6 months, maybe more, have been real painful. CVS is down a lot, and when it's up, its behavior is quirky (segfaults, missing history, etc.). We're concerned about having all our code stored in an unreliable place.
I noticed there is BerliOS.de, and GNU Savannah. Are there others we should be looking at? Which is the best of them?
Were I to set up an OSS project today, I'd host it myself. For $10/mo, Dreamhost will get you a website with MySQL (there's your project website, news blog, wiki, forums, bug tracker and so on), Subversion for revision control, mailing lists, a bunch of shell accounts and email addresses for your developers -- pretty much all you'd need. And you're not counting on a team that doesn't know you exist to maintain it for you, and you get a place to host personal stuff at the same time.
It doesn't give you multiplatform build farms and so forth, but I don't think most SourceForget users use those.
posted by mendel at 4:29 PM on May 17, 2006
It doesn't give you multiplatform build farms and so forth, but I don't think most SourceForget users use those.
posted by mendel at 4:29 PM on May 17, 2006
Response by poster: Hehe... we actually take advantage of the compile farm today. Our app builds on at least a half dozen platforms, so it's nice to have access to that.
Thanks for the tips so far.
posted by knave at 7:15 PM on May 17, 2006
Thanks for the tips so far.
posted by knave at 7:15 PM on May 17, 2006
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Collaboa is a project tracker, inspired by Trac. Plugging directly into Subversion, it currently sports: a repository browser and changeset viewer, a lightweight ticketing system for tracking bugs etc. (more things are planned for the future). It’s still in the early stages of development, but perfectly usable and self-hosted.
posted by bloodniece at 4:25 PM on May 17, 2006