I want to move from current "Feature Request" tracker to Ideatorrent, but unfortunately there are at least two steps that prevent a smooth migration:
1.- I was not able to find a way to decommission current "Feature Request" tracker, so no new entries can be posted.
2.- Ideatorrent link is not intuively reachable at all. I would expect to find it at "Support" tab in the project page, but currently you need to go to the "Support" one and then to "Hosted applications" dropdown menu within extended tabs.
so SF is a kind of open source community? Why not using this to collaborately pushing promising projects further in an all-at-the-same-time effort. That means, every now and then (like the project of the month) a project which is very promising but has a lot of bugs or needs a lot of advancement is introducing itself and indicating ways to help. SF then promotes this introduction in announcements like "project of the month" or in the email-newsletter. Than two weeks/one month later, a summary is given about the success that this call brought. If repeatedly no success occurs, abandon this thing again. But I think its worth a try.
It would be great if commits to SVN "tweet'd" the project name, committer, r-number and time to a specific twitter feed defined by the project admin.
A tweet might look like:
"gefahrmaus committed r12345 to blojsom at 0:00hrs changing 666 files."
(69 characters)
Another format might be:
"r12345 committed to blojsom at 0:00hrs. gefahrmaus says, 'Changed Hibernate definitions. Updated HTML to 4.01 specification. YUI 2 Conne...'"
140 characters (sans quotes). truncate the commit message appropriately with ellipsis.
The old statistics system summarized download totals by 'package' which is analogous to folders in the current statistics system. This made it easy for projects that had multiple packages to easily see how many downloads there were for all releases in that package.
The new statistics systems only shows downloads per file. If you want to calculate total downloads of anything other than a single file or all releases for the whole SF project, you need to manually go through and do every single file ever released of the type you're interested in and then sum them up.
Sourceforge has serious performance issues when connecting from some locations(like The Netherlands).
This problem increases exponentially when using https.
There have been several reports on the tracker for these issues. I have run Sourceforge through a static analysis tool and this tool gave some quick wins to improve performance by reducing the size of the data being transfered (it does this automatically, just have to replace the files) and giving advice on how to improve overall page rendering time.
Written by milo-software the 18 Nov 09 at 13:06.
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Browsing the GIT repository online is nice, but sometimes i want to grab the whole tree and do stuff myself (e.g. compile it) that cannot be done online.
However, neither GIT nor SSH access is allowed through our proxy server, so i can only do this when a http based git clone operation is allowed. There are likely to be more situations where the raw git protocol cannot be used.
SourceForge has a page listing all files of a project, and also the possibility to view only a subfolder.
Problem is that if you want to retrieve this list, you have to parse it from the source code, dealing with the current design.
I need to modify my script three times to fit the design.
It would be very useful and faster if we could get a list of those files, containing additional informations or not, from a constant and chosen way.
When posting a new Newsitem, only a short outline is shown on the project summary page.
One would expect, that clicking on the news title in this outline should take you to the whole news item. But: it doesn't. Instead, one is taken to a page where one can submit a new topic.
To view the whole news item, one has to click "Develop", than move the cursor over the "Develop"-Tab, then click on "News".
This is not very intuitive and confuses users, that aren't sourceforge members (are not into sourceforge, so to speak) and just want to look for news about some software they are using.
Currently, SF.net detects Mac, Windows, Linux, Solaris and maybe some other platforms, and allows a single file to be selected as the default download for any given project.
Previously, the 'platform download' page allowed a default download to be *suggested* and then for other accompanying files to also be displayed, as well as messages saying "if you're this kind of user, choose this file...".
My problem is that I support multiple Linux flavours (.deb and .rpm packages) for my project, but these different distros aren't detected by the platform detection system.
If we had more sophisticated platform detection, then it would one-click downloads of my binaries much easier for Linux users.
On one of my projects' Trac ticketing system, there has been an onslaught of spam tickets (by anonymous users). For now, I've created a new resolution category of 'spam' and I've closed these tickets.
However, I'd like to get rid of them permanently; maintaining the history of these tickets is irrelevant to the project.
When someone goes to a project's bug tracker, they see all bugs, closed and open. I think people are far more likely to want to see the list of open bugs.
Additionally, I think that sorting by priority would be more useful than sorting by date added.
Many project web pages contain collaborative systems, such as wikis, where users can create an account, login and edit. If no protection is added, such systems are quickly targeted by spammers and other malicious users. Furthermore, there often is no connection between the username people choose on the project pages and the one they are registered with on sf.net.
if you have many developers in your project and want to change some project permission for many of them, e. g. you want to switch to from CVS to SVN and want to make CVS read-only by taking this permission from all users except some, you have to change this permissions for each and every one, one after another. This is very tedious.
After a post is made to the forum it is only possible to delete it as a whole. You cannot edit it. Very inconvenient is you made a mistake. The forum functionality of SF should not be extensive, basic is fine, but now it is to basic.
This may be just another minor & cosmetical improvement proposal, but it would have huge impact for guys like me writing loads of forum postings:
Please increase the size of the textbox windows for writing new messages in the Forum/News sections. Crome lets me increase the size of the windows, but Firefox doesn't...