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I feel like this is too little too late for Sourcefourge. I can often assume one of two things when I see a link to a Sourceforge project: 1. I am going to be

I feel like this is too little too late for Sourcefourge. I can often assume one of two things when I see a link to a Sourceforge project: 1. I am going to be redirected to Github or Google Code 2. The project is dead At this point, they are just playing catch up.

eterps 14y ago
Those were exactly my thoughts.
zhynn 14y ago
The fact that the platform is open source is relevant.
- JoshTriplett 14y ago
  Yeah, even if they just succeed in cloning 80% of Github, that still provides a lot of value.
  - dubcanada 14y ago
    Look at GitLab. It's pretty much a clone of 80% of Github and it's open source.
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WestCoastJustin 14y ago
It was too late years ago!
slurgfest 14y ago
To be honest, a link to Google Code is not much different from a SourceForge link by now.
- rogerbinns 14y ago
  I host my personal projects on Google Code. In contrast to Github it lets you host files (especially important if not all your users have compilers or similar tools), and lets you have multiple repositories per project. Pretty much every hoster does two repositories per project - one for the main source and a second for the wiki. Having more than two is great. For example for work stuff I often have Android client and server as different repositories. But there is no need for them to have separate bug trackers or wikis - for an end user it is often hard to tell where an issue actually lies and having to copy issues between client and server side trackers is useless work. Github's issue tracker lacks being able to prioritise which is highly annoying. The most annoying problem with Google Code is they refuse to have private paid for hosting - https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829 https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829 Having all our employees create new Github accounts and doing administration there is a pain when we already do everything else at Google. I suspect paid project hosting would also help improve Google Code since there would be revenue behind feature requests and bugs.
  - raylu 14y ago
    Minor point: GitHub wiki's have git access. https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/wiki/_access https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/wiki/_access
    - rogerbinns 14y ago
      I don't understand what point you are trying to make. As I stated, pretty much every project hoster has two repositories per project for the code and wiki. Eg for github you have github.com/[user]/[project].git and github.com/[user]/[project].wiki.git With Google Code you can have any number of additional repositories eg the equivalent of github.com/[user]/[project].documentation.git, github.com/[user]/[project].testsuites.git, github.com/[user]/[project].androidclient.git etc With Github you would have to create new projects which means separate issue trackers, wikis etc.
  - Matrixik 14y ago
    Did you check bitbucket.org? They support binary downloads, git and hg, issues priorities [1], free private repos for 5 users. [1] http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/26/issue-tracker-user-interface-updates/ http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/26/issue-tracker-user-inte...
einhverfr 14y ago
To be fair I participate in active projects on all three. But a lot of open source projects die, so a site of any age will have a lot of dead code.

eterps 14y ago

Those were exactly my thoughts.

zhynn 14y ago

The fact that the platform is open source is relevant.

JoshTriplett 14y ago
Yeah, even if they just succeed in cloning 80% of Github, that still provides a lot of value.
- dubcanada 14y ago
  Look at GitLab. It's pretty much a clone of 80% of Github and it's open source.
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WestCoastJustin 14y ago

It was too late years ago!

slurgfest 14y ago

To be honest, a link to Google Code is not much different from a SourceForge link by now.

rogerbinns 14y ago
I host my personal projects on Google Code. In contrast to Github it lets you host files (especially important if not all your users have compilers or similar tools), and lets you have multiple repositories per project. Pretty much every hoster does two repositories per project - one for the main source and a second for the wiki. Having more than two is great. For example for work stuff I often have Android client and server as different repositories. But there is no need for them to have separate bug trackers or wikis - for an end user it is often hard to tell where an issue actually lies and having to copy issues between client and server side trackers is useless work. Github's issue tracker lacks being able to prioritise which is highly annoying. The most annoying problem with Google Code is they refuse to have private paid for hosting - https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829 https://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829 Having all our employees create new Github accounts and doing administration there is a pain when we already do everything else at Google. I suspect paid project hosting would also help improve Google Code since there would be revenue behind feature requests and bugs.
- raylu 14y ago
  Minor point: GitHub wiki's have git access. https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/wiki/_access https://github.com/[user]/[repo]/wiki/_access
  - rogerbinns 14y ago
    I don't understand what point you are trying to make. As I stated, pretty much every project hoster has two repositories per project for the code and wiki. Eg for github you have github.com/[user]/[project].git and github.com/[user]/[project].wiki.git With Google Code you can have any number of additional repositories eg the equivalent of github.com/[user]/[project].documentation.git, github.com/[user]/[project].testsuites.git, github.com/[user]/[project].androidclient.git etc With Github you would have to create new projects which means separate issue trackers, wikis etc.
- Matrixik 14y ago
  Did you check bitbucket.org? They support binary downloads, git and hg, issues priorities [1], free private repos for 5 users. [1] http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/26/issue-tracker-user-interface-updates/ http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/07/26/issue-tracker-user-inte...

einhverfr 14y ago

To be fair I participate in active projects on all three. But a lot of open source projects die, so a site of any age will have a lot of dead code.