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SourceForge itself is free software. I think that's one possible reason to use it rather than GitHub or else. The other possible is that SourceForge provide mai

SourceForge itself is free software. I think that's one possible reason to use it rather than GitHub or else. The other possible is that SourceForge provide mailing list server and other service for projects. Anyway, you won't move a project around unless you have some strong motivations.

olalonde 11y ago
Is SourceForge really open source? Guess I must have missed that news. Regardless, Gitlab would still be a better choice in terms of UX and is also open source.
- tobias2014 11y ago
  Yes it is. http://sourceforge.net/create/ http://sourceforge.net/create/ (see also https://allura.apache.org/ https://allura.apache.org/)
- e12e 11y ago
  It has been released as Apache Allura, Wikipedia has a nice overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Allura http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Allura Install docs: https://forge-allura.apache.org/docs/getting_started/installation.html https://forge-allura.apache.org/docs/getting_started/install... I agree that sourceforge.net as a service might not be my favourite, but Allura the forge-software seems pretty good. I think the only thing that comes close is the stack from Canonical -- but Allura seems more viable to self-host (and scale up when needed -- rather than "only a vm" or "full cluster"). It also seems less "overly opinionated", and still includes sensible defaults (contrast with getting up and running with Trac). YMMV, but it doesn't look half-bad. Right now I don't need anything more than what you can easily get with either a separate wiki+mercurial+mailing-list, "just" trac or fossil -- but for something in-between "too big to host internally" and "too complex for Trac to be easy" -- it looks rather interesting. I'd love to hear any war stories.
- shmerl 11y ago
  Do you know if Gitlab allows attachments in bugs and comments? It's one of the major deficiencies in Github.
  - DouweM 11y ago
    GitLab developer here; it does! Where GitHub only allows images to be dragged into issue and comment description fields, GitLab allows this for any type of file.
    - shmerl 11y ago
      Thanks! That's great. I'll use Gitlab going forward :)

olalonde 11y ago

Is SourceForge really open source? Guess I must have missed that news. Regardless, Gitlab would still be a better choice in terms of UX and is also open source.

tobias2014 11y ago
Yes it is. http://sourceforge.net/create/ http://sourceforge.net/create/ (see also https://allura.apache.org/ https://allura.apache.org/)
e12e 11y ago
It has been released as Apache Allura, Wikipedia has a nice overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Allura http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Allura Install docs: https://forge-allura.apache.org/docs/getting_started/installation.html https://forge-allura.apache.org/docs/getting_started/install... I agree that sourceforge.net as a service might not be my favourite, but Allura the forge-software seems pretty good. I think the only thing that comes close is the stack from Canonical -- but Allura seems more viable to self-host (and scale up when needed -- rather than "only a vm" or "full cluster"). It also seems less "overly opinionated", and still includes sensible defaults (contrast with getting up and running with Trac). YMMV, but it doesn't look half-bad. Right now I don't need anything more than what you can easily get with either a separate wiki+mercurial+mailing-list, "just" trac or fossil -- but for something in-between "too big to host internally" and "too complex for Trac to be easy" -- it looks rather interesting. I'd love to hear any war stories.
shmerl 11y ago
Do you know if Gitlab allows attachments in bugs and comments? It's one of the major deficiencies in Github.
- DouweM 11y ago
  GitLab developer here; it does! Where GitHub only allows images to be dragged into issue and comment description fields, GitLab allows this for any type of file.
  - shmerl 11y ago
    Thanks! That's great. I'll use Gitlab going forward :)