"To my knowledge (I was very young during the period when sourceforge was still good) sourceforge never really attracted private customers by offering value add

"To my knowledge (I was very young during the period when sourceforge was still good) sourceforge never really attracted private customers by offering value adds to CVS/SVN so it didn't have a reliable non-donation revenue model." Correct. At the time it was a much tough hill to climb; the business climate was still not ready for it by and large; quite resistant actually, hence why for a while an on-prem version of the software was developed and sold and supported.