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I wasn't a coder in the Sourceforge glory days. But it was a great place for a frequent user of opensource software. I remember a lot of small projects only exi
by tmd83 11y ago
I wasn't a coder in the Sourceforge glory days. But it was a great place for a frequent user of opensource software. I remember a lot of small projects only existence was their Sourceforge presence.
So Github might have provided a lot of new things but Sourceforge was really amazing at what it provided, when it provided.
Being the only player also means nobody gave small opensource projects any home when they did.
- icebraining 11y agoIt wasn't really the only player; BerliOS and GNU Savannah appeared right around that time, and Launchpad isn't much younger. That said, they weren't really any better, in my opinion. At least SF had a bunch of mirrors, which was helpful back then.
- ksherlock 11y agoSourceForge started out as a 20% time type project at VA Linux/Research. It was originally open source but went closed source when they pivoted from hardware to SourceForge. Savannah was a fork from before it was closed up.