Comments on: Tracking tool for open source projects

Question: Tracking tool for open source projects

wodow — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:09:41 -0800

Does there exist a web-based tool that tracks open source projects and informs subscribers (by email, RSS etc.) about major developments, e.g. when they release version 1.0?

All projects are not equal! Some have a single mailing list, some have dedicated announcement lists, some have strange conventions.

I would like to be able to track a number of projects via simple view, e.g. web-based RSS reader style, like Google Reader. Or a service could provide RSS feeds directly.

By: wodow

wodow — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:10:30 -0800

In case this doesn't already exist, I have emailed the idea as a suggestion to Ohloh.

By: ISeemToBeAVerb

ISeemToBeAVerb — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:12:08 -0800

There's always VersionTracker.

By: unixrat

unixrat — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:13:44 -0800

Freshmeat works for many projects.

By: jeffamaphone

jeffamaphone — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:00:11 -0800

Source Forge?

By: wodow

wodow — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:13:47 -0800

Thank you for the suggestions!

With respect to Freshmeat and SourceForge, the tool I have in mind could aggregate their data, I suppose. SourceForge only hosts some projects, and Freshmeat doesn't have everything.

By: Citrus

Citrus — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:21:30 -0800

Trac is probably what you're looking for.