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commit messages to project RSS feeds.  
Written by hackmiker the 3 Nov 09 at 14:20. New
Hi. Google code svn RSS includes the commit messages. For example: http://code.google.com/feeds/p/frogmod/svnchanges/basic and http://code.google.com/feeds/p/frogmod/updates/basic -- this last one only includes the message, not the changed files.

https://sourceforge.net/export/rss2_keepsake.php?group_id=102911 the SF rss only includes ' commited revision to SVN repository, changing files'.
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Solution #1: Add the svn/cvs/whatever commit messages to project RSS feeds.
Written by hackmiker the 3 Nov 09 at 14:20.
It would be nice if SF also included at least the commit message, if not the list of changed files.

This can be useful for feed reader users and other services.

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Try to categorize the ideatorrent  
Written by trilarion the 29 Oct 09 at 14:00. New
This ideatorrent really gets crowded. I have lost the overview about all the >300 ideas. How can we see what ideas there are in a certain area?
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Solution #1: Use tags and list tags!
Written by trilarion the 29 Oct 09 at 14:00.
I propose that everybody adds tags if possible and that the list of available tags (with number of associated ideas) is displayed. Is this view available in the software?

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Subversion: Fine-grained permission control  
Written by malat the 28 Oct 09 at 13:11. New
I would be nice to have finer grained control on svn directories (to limit write access to branches, tags).

Reference:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Subversion%20permissions%20ma nagement
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Solution #1: Path-Based Authorization
Written by malat the 28 Oct 09 at 13:11.

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Lower bandwith and less code means faster page access  
Written by tetsuo55 the 4 Nov 09 at 17:51. New
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.
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Solution #1: Improve performance and reduce bandwith use with a few simple changes
Written by tetsuo55 the 4 Nov 09 at 17:51.
I suggest Sourceforge site staff use the following (open source) application to run static analysis on all of sourceforge inluding the hosted applications.

The appliction is called "Page Speed", it is a firefox plugin.
Source and binaries here: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/index.html
One of the things that i noticed first is that hosted apps do not seem to have gzip enabled, causing a huge waste of bandwith.

As part of Google's "Speed up the web" program there is also a webpage with best practices for performance of websites (this site is also community based)
http://code.google.com/speed/

That site also has a link with a ton of optimizing applications but i have not investigated those yet

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Tight integration of IRC to sourceforge  
Written by dwaynebailey the 2 Nov 09 at 10:59. New
Currently I'm sure many people use IRC from freenode.net - nothing wrong with that - but it doesn't integrated tightly with sourceforge services.

The type of integration I'm looking for is firstly at the developer level:
1) Commit and Bugs bot - pushing info from commits and bigs to the developer channel
2) Channel logging - log channel chats so that they become records and searchable by both developers and users

From a user point of view:
1) Web based IRC client - to allow users to interact with developers/support without having to understand IRC
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Solution #1: cia.vc for IRC bots
Written by dwaynebailey the 2 Nov 09 at 10:59.
Look at the technology used by cia.vc to implement the bots more directly.
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Solution #2: webchat
Written by dwaynebailey the 2 Nov 09 at 10:59.
Check out the freenode.net webchat http://webchat.freenode.net/

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Science/Engineering category should be on the home page!  
Written by jdpipe the 19 Oct 09 at 01:33. New
There are 34,461 scientific/engineering software projects on SF.net, with around 15 of them having had over a million downloads each, and many thousands more are actively being developed and supported in more specialised areas. This category CONTAINS 143 OF THE TOP 1000 ACTIVITY RANKED PROJECTS!

On the other hand why is "CLUSTERING" on the home page, which ISN'T A TOP-LEVEL CATEGORY, has NO SUBCATEGORIES, has less than 1000 projects, and has NOT ONE project that has received a million downloads and only 9 projects with top-1000 activity rank?

SF.net, you need to give a bit more airtime to your huge and active scientific and engineering user and developer community!

[edit: corrected '100' to '1000' in first para -- JP]
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Solution #1: Put it on the home page
Written by jdpipe the 19 Oct 09 at 01:33.
Totally and utterly trash CLUSTERING from the home page and replace it with SCIENTIFIC/ENGINEERING. Never look back.

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"Newest Files" category is confusing to users  
Written by gnaural the 30 Oct 09 at 14:52. New
both of these are exactly right:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/3872
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/4521

From stuff i'm hearing back on my own project, i've started to realize many or even most users simply download whatever they see under "Newest Files", even though some of these "Newest Files" are bug fixes on older versions, or specialty releases (like a static-linked version), etc.

One thing that seems strange: adding new files seems to drop even unrelated ones currently on the Newest Files list, such that, for example, a more important file from that's only a couple days younger than some new less important file will get dropped, and remain that way for months.


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Solution #1: "Newest Files" listing needs to be under project management control
Written by gnaural the 30 Oct 09 at 14:52.
"Newest Files" listing needs to be under project management control, so project admin can choose which files to add/delete from this list. At the very least, Newest Files should drop files from it's listing after a few days.
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Solution #2: Restore the "platform download" page
Written by jdpipe the 5 Nov 09 at 00:00.
The problem here is that for big projects with many released files, the administrator needs a way to guide the user to the most appropriate file.

The old "platform download" page, recently removed, provided an excellent, though under-utilised, way of doing this. It was completely under the control of the administrator. Anyone who didn't want to use it could just use the default "list all files" approach (which, subject to suitable categorisiation, gave lists of files in date order)

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Monitoring activity via mailing lists  
Written by tfry the 30 Oct 09 at 13:34. New
For group developed projects, it is of useful to track activity on mailing lists. For instance, many projects send CVS/SVN/whatever commit messages to a mailing list to make it easy for all developers (or interested users) to follow current changes. Other things that may be nice to monitor on mailing lists is activity on the trackers, forum posts, new file releases, wiki page changes, etc.

SF supports monitoring on mailing lists only for some of these features. For others (notably hosted apps), this is not possible, and in fact in the case of file releases and forum posts, E-Mail tracking has recently been *removed*.

Most activity on SF can be monitored from individual SF accounts (although this, too, generally does not work for hosted apps), or via RSS feeds. Most activity can not be sent to a mailing list, however, and that's a real deficiency.
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Solution #1: Re-instate e-mail notification for forum posts
Written by tfry the 30 Oct 09 at 13:34.
This is the primary reason why I want the feature back. My projects offer forums to allow SF-users to post without subscribing to a mailing list, or revealing their "real" mail address. But I don't want to check forums manually for new posts, *and* I want my co-developers to be notified of new posts, automatically, as well. That's why I want notifications of forum posts to be sent to our main mailing list, as in the past.

Please re-instate this feature.
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Solution #2: Offer an RSS to mailing list service to projects
Written by tfry the 30 Oct 09 at 13:43.
This solution is much more generic: Most activity can be monitored via RSS, even for the hosted apps. Please provide a service to allow to subscribe SF mailing lists to RSS feeds.

rss2email and similar software already exists, you'd just need to host it, and provide a simplistic management interface to allow subscribing project mailing lists to selected RSS feeds.

It's ok to restrict RSS feeds to those on your domains, and e-mail targets to SF mailing lists, if you're worried about abuse.

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Current version of doxygen is outdated  
Written by dergraaf the 29 Oct 09 at 23:19. New
The currently installed version of doxygen (1.4.7) produces very unstructured HTML which makes it nearly impossible to change its look via CSS.

Furthermore doxygen isn't handling UTF-8 correctly which leads to problems with umlauts and other special characters.
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Solution #1: Update doxygen to more recent version
Written by dergraaf the 29 Oct 09 at 23:19.
I am working with doxygen 1.5.8 here which has one of the described problems.

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Make remember me login functionality independent of IP adress  
Written by trilarion the 29 Oct 09 at 13:54. New
Currently (according to a support request: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/4023) the login remember function is bound to the IP adress. For many dial-in users the IP adress will not be constant, the remember me function therefore almost useless. However, its really useful.
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Solution #1: Change the behavior.
Written by trilarion the 29 Oct 09 at 13:54.
E.g. by using cookies. Yummy! :)
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Solution #2: Access from multiple locations
Written by jdpipe the 4 Nov 09 at 23:54.
Cookies should definitely be used for this. What happens if I use a different browser? What if I log out and someone else uses my computer? IP-based auth seems like a poor solution.

One common user-case that I experience is that I log in from home and then I return to work and I have to log in to SF.net again. I don't see why SF.net couldn't support multiple sessions. The "remember me" feature should set a cookie on the machine that expires after ~2 wks, and allows access to all pages except for person details, certificates and keys, etc, which should still require password confirmation.

Also: the "remember me" feature should be remembered! If I clicked "remember me" last time, I shouldn't have to click it again this time!

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"Project Reviews" too open  
Written by bruno_pages the 29 Oct 09 at 13:49. New
to allow any to vote allow 'spamers' to vote and probably in a negative way

to voting down without a reason is not really instructive for the people working on the voted project
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Solution #1: Hi, I think only logged users should be allowed to vote up or down on a project
Written by bruno_pages the 29 Oct 09 at 13:49.
I think only logged users should be allowed to vote

perhaps also to force users voting down to enter a message

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Migration tool from SF.net bug tracker to MantisBT or trac  
Written by dafi the 14 Oct 09 at 15:14. New
I want to migrate all my existing bugs/feature requests (also already closed) to the hosted app MantisBT or trac.

I prefer migration to Mantis but if moving to trac is easier then trac is good.
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Solution #1: Create a migration tool
Written by dafi the 14 Oct 09 at 15:14.
Starting from SF.net tracker move to Mantis database
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Solution #2: Create a migration tool
Written by cybernet2u the 26 Oct 09 at 22:04.
But for trac app
thank you,
cybernet :D

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Titles are missing from the screenshots!  
Written by rickrich the 22 Oct 09 at 21:57. New
Compare:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/g-manual-duplex/
Click: View screenshots ...

With:

https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=279758

In the first case, the titles are missing (just 1 of 5).
In the second case, the titles are there:

Screenshot: Printers -> GnomeManualDuplex? -> Settings
Printers -> GnomeManualDuplex? -> Settings
Configuration Window

etc...
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Solution #1: Implement titles in the screenshots
Written by rickrich the 22 Oct 09 at 21:57.
Implement titles in the screenshots.

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Sourceforge bazaar does not support the default storage format  
Written by jonls the 28 Oct 09 at 00:21. New
I am unable to push bzr repositories created with the default storage format to sourceforge. I am using bazaar 2.0.0, the default format is 2a. When I try to push it, I get an error saying that the remote repository is not compatible because it has different rich-root support.
I was adviced to try to upgrade the remote repository. I tried this but then loggerhead stops working. Also it doesn't seem to be possible to convert my local repository to something sourceforge supports, so I'm a bit stuck.
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Solution #1: Support more bazaar formats
Written by jonls the 28 Oct 09 at 00:21.
Or at least put a warning up. Tell people that loggerhead breaks if you upgrade. I spent a lot of time trying to restore from backup after the upgrade failed. And warn people that they have to initialize their repositories with --knit-0.92 to make it compatible.

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summary page has download link, but no instructions  
Written by ernestpasour the 22 Oct 09 at 01:11. New
The new summary page has a download link (the big green button), but no default link to the associated release notes. For this, the user has to go to the "view all files" page. This is silly since it seems like the point of the summary page is to streamline the process for the typical user. Also, there isn't a good way to add other information that first-time visitors should see. There is the "show project details" area, but it isn't expanded by default, so many users won't see it. Also, the 'project details' items can't be clickable links (at least I don't know how to specify it if they can be).
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Solution #1: allow customized summary page
Written by ernestpasour the 22 Oct 09 at 01:11.
At minimum, I would like the release notes link for the main download to appear on the summary page, so that the link is visible in the default configuration for first-time visitors and is obviously release notes (i.e. probably not the 'release notes' icon that isn't very obvious). A link below the green button that said "release notes" would do nicely.

Also, before the UI revamp I was able to supply some markup text on the summary page. In this text, I put a brief explanation and was able to link to the main usage document. I would like to be able to do the same thing in the current UI, and obviously each project might have different needs.


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Make it possible to choose summary screenshot  
Written by codebiscuit the 21 Oct 09 at 20:15. New
Currently it is impossible to choose a summary screenshot:
https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/2439#comment:5
Daniel Hinojosa - Sr. Manager, SourceForge.net Support suggested I raise this here.
The reason this is a problem (for me) is I want the summary screen to be just the application in its normal mode of operation, but I'd like supplementary screens to show how to use the program etc. At the moment, my "how-to" screen is the summary, which reduces the size of the main content.

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Solution #1: Always display most recently added screenshot as summary (or something!)
Written by codebiscuit the 21 Oct 09 at 20:15.
I would assume it would be a fairly easy fix: even something as simple as making the site always choose the newest, or the one that has the first filename (or alt text) alphanumerically, provided it was documented as such, would work just fine.
It could alternatively work by displaying the first (or last, anything consistent!) by "dbImageID", provided each sumbitted image was guarenteed a greater ID than the previous one barring overflows - for a maximum of 6 images, this would probably work?
Or, having some specific method of tagging the user-defined summary screen (as a seperate thing from "Other screenshots").
I'm not a web guy, however, so apologies in advance if it is all very complicated (& I can't myself suggest a patch).
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Solution #2: Allow preferred screenshot to be explicit selected
Written by jdpipe the 5 Nov 09 at 00:05.
...with a radio button, or whatever.

In the case where no preference has been specified, assume the most recently-added.

Allow the preferred screenshot to be de-selected, as well, to allow most-recent default behaviour to be restored.

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download page should display the last upload first  
Written by samatwork the 20 Oct 09 at 14:52. New
Hi,

We have hosted our project (openbravo) in sf.net and we are experiencing some problem in download section from the last face lift recently. Some of our end users who regularly receive our updates have started complaining about the order of display in the download section.
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Solution #1: download page should display the last upload first (based on upload date)
Written by samatwork the 20 Oct 09 at 14:52.
Wondering is there a prescribed way of managing download page. Our challenge is make sure the download page should display the last upload first (based on upload date)

Feature request implementation will be appreciated !

Thanks and Regards
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Solution #2: Make display order selectable
Written by trilarion the 21 Oct 09 at 11:06.
I think the end user should be able to sort the download list either alphabetically or in natural (upload time) order like it is possible in common file explorers of your OS. The project itself should be able to define a default sorting order.
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Solution #3: prepend 00- to the directory name
Written by glennrp the 3 Nov 09 at 21:56.
I've been prepending 00- to the name of the directory I want to appear first. See the libpng project. Later when I upload a new release I remove the 00- from the old directory and it moves to the bottom of the page.
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Solution #4: Solution #2: Restore the "platform download" page
Written by jdpipe the 5 Nov 09 at 00:15.
The platform download functionality, recently removed from SF.net, gave administrators the power to offer particular files as 'suggested' downloads, on a per-platform basis.

When used fully, this provided exactly the sort of functionality that is being requested here: easily identifying recommended file-downloads to users.

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bzr command not available in the web environment  
Written by ewl the 26 Oct 09 at 07:58. New
Hello,

/usr/bin/bzr (Bazaar) is available under the shell environment but NOT under the web environment, i.e. CGI scripts can't make use of the bzr command (cvs, git, svn, etc are all there).

That would be quite critical and surely relatively easy to fix...

Thanks, Eric

PS: I've already been told that it's a feature, not a bug: https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/sourceforge/ticket/5987
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Solution #1: Add bzr command to web environment
Written by ewl the 26 Oct 09 at 07:58.
Pretty easy: install the bzr command like all other version controlling systems.

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Enable email notification for push and commit in SCM Bazaar  
Written by dpolivaev the 13 Oct 09 at 07:33. New
As a developer of an open source project with distributed team I need automatic notifications about all commits into code repository so that I can immediately see the changes, update my own code base and check the quality of the new commits. On Source Forge such notifications are currently available for older systems SVN and CVS, but not for Bazaar which is used in our project.
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Solution #1: Install plugin bzr-email on Bazaar used on the Source Forge
Written by dpolivaev the 13 Oct 09 at 07:33.
In order to have email notifications for bzr commits, the bzr-email plugin can be installed. Since revision 39 it also supports notifications on push, the earlier versions would not do the work.

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Allowing custom VHOSTs for developer websites  
Written by volkan-k the 25 Oct 09 at 19:59. New
All developers have to use developername.users.sourceforge.net VHOST for their personal websites.

I would like to use developername.org instead of long sourceforge subdomains.

Ability to Add custom VHOSTs for developer websites would be great, just like project websites...
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Solution #1: Allow developers to use Custom VHOST service for their websites...
Written by volkan-k the 25 Oct 09 at 19:59.
For developers who elect to register a vanity domain allow them to configure sourceforge servers to answer traffic for those domains.

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