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This wired article tries to rewrite the history: > rather geeky and sometimes unreliable internet site called SourceForge Wtf. SourceForge was for a long time

by frik 12y ago

This wired article tries to rewrite the history: > rather geeky and sometimes unreliable internet site called SourceForge Wtf. SourceForge was for a long time very decent. It wasn't geeky nor unreliable, it offered CVS and later Subversion, web hosting, mailing list hosting, forums and downloads. GoogleCode itself was geeky with its very basic "Wiki", but it had a leaner "GMail style" UI, with only basic features so newer projects used it over SourceForge. "Bidding farewell to Google Code", that's a rather nice wording for closing down a web service. Please archive orphan open source projects to a read-only SVN/GIT repo or donate the data to archive.org. It reminds us that more open source projects should host the code on their servers, e.g. using Gitlab. In some years SourceForge and GitHub may get closed down too. Some orphan project of great value may get lost of the digital dark age.

sytse 12y ago
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innocenat 12y ago
I haven't read the source article, but SourceForge at some point was real slow. Like, it would takes minutes alone to Log In at SourceForge, let alone checking out SVN repo. Accessing website hosted on SourgeForge was real slow too. I think during that year (not sure which year), tons of projects migrate either to Google Code or to GitHub. It was later that sourceforge improve.
- frik 12y ago
  Sourceforge was really good and as big in the open source world (between 1999 and 2006) like Github today. Later Google Code took over a larger part but never become as popular as Sourceforge or Github. Sourceforge is still used by many open source projects as download hosting provider (binary files). Google Code already stopped the download functionality several months/years(?) ago. Google Code was a 20% project created by Google devs in their 20% free-project-time, though it never improved beyond its first MVP stage, but was for many years very successful nevertheless.

by frik 12y ago

sytse 12y ago

If any open source projects want to self host with GitLab CE we will be glad to provide free consulting to help them migrate and provide a free instance. Contact me at sytse@gitlab.com to get started.

innocenat 12y ago

I haven't read the source article, but SourceForge at some point was real slow. Like, it would takes minutes alone to Log In at SourceForge, let alone checking out SVN repo. Accessing website hosted on SourgeForge was real slow too. I think during that year (not sure which year), tons of projects migrate either to Google Code or to GitHub. It was later that sourceforge improve.

frik 12y ago
Sourceforge was really good and as big in the open source world (between 1999 and 2006) like Github today. Later Google Code took over a larger part but never become as popular as Sourceforge or Github. Sourceforge is still used by many open source projects as download hosting provider (binary files). Google Code already stopped the download functionality several months/years(?) ago. Google Code was a 20% project created by Google devs in their 20% free-project-time, though it never improved beyond its first MVP stage, but was for many years very successful nevertheless.