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"Clarion" is not in the list of programming languages for trove categorization  
Written by wexman the 26 Jan 10 at 17:55. New
The Clarion language is a popular 4th generation language and has been around more than 20 years now, yet this is missing in the list of programming languages.
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Solution #1: Add "Clarion" to the list of programming languages
Written by wexman the 26 Jan 10 at 17:55.
Add "Clarion" to the list.

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Hosted Apps link on Develop Page only.  
Written by bremenour the 2 Feb 10 at 18:56. New
Each Hosted App has a link returning to the project page. This seems inefficient for users wishing to peruse the other Hosted Apps available, given the link's placement in the Develop area.

Typical traversal would be:
User arrives at a project page:
sourceforge.net/projects/example/
Clicks to the Development area (Develop link):
sourceforge.net/projects/example/develop
Engage the Hosted Apps drop down and choose.
Once through, click the "Visit project example" link in the SF banner, which returns users to sourceforge.net/projects/example/
The user now has to return to the Develop area if they wish to examine other Hosted Apps.
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Solution #1: Hosted Apps link/menu Control.
Written by bremenour the 2 Feb 10 at 18:56.
Ideally, project administrators would have the ability to control where the "Visit project example" link points to: e.g. directly back to sourceforge.net/projects/example/develop/, to sourceforge.net/projects/example/ as it is now, or even example.sourceforge.net where Hosted Apps might be linked to directly in navigation areas.
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Solution #2: Add a Hosted Apps menu
Written by hinojosa the 2 Feb 10 at 19:07.
Alternatively, the Hosted Apps menu could be added to the Project page: perhaps granting project administrators the ability to dictate whether or not it appears there, on the Develop page, or both.

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missing ticket dependencies in hosted app trac  
Written by matthiaslohr the 6 Feb 10 at 17:42. New
Trac doesn't support ticket dependencies, but this can be useful for large projects to find problems in development.
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Solution #1: Add the MasterTicketsPlugin for the hosted app Trac
Written by matthiaslohr the 6 Feb 10 at 17:42.
The MasterTicketsPlugin can be found on http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/MasterTicketsPlugin. It adds the possibility for ticket dependencies in trac.

It also can generate nice graphs where you can see blocker items etc. See example: https://krtek.asta.uni-luebeck.de/trac/lff/depgraph/29

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Open up subversion repositories to users from Iran and Cuba  
Written by ftyers the 21 Jan 10 at 16:38. New
Our project has a number of contributors from Iran and Cuba. At the moment the SF prohibits users from these countries from committing to our subversion repository.

We would like our contributors from Iran and Cuba to be able to contribute to our project via the subversion repository.
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Solution #1: US external subversion mirror
Written by ftyers the 21 Jan 10 at 16:38.
IANAL but this could possibly done by having a subversion mirror open to certain projects outside the US. Projects could click a button for "enable commits from Iran and Cuba" and then their contributors could commit to this non-US repository.

Users from Iran and Cuba would be registered on this external server, and would not have any global account on SourceForge. Commits between the external server and the main repository would be replicated.
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Solution #2: Possible alternatives to SF
Written by pminervini the 21 Jan 10 at 17:20.
savannah.gnu.org
www.gna.org
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Solution #3: A SF-Dedicated Proxy owned by Non-US/International Entity* in Neutral Country
Written by sneetsher the 23 Jan 10 at 17:58.
Some European countries could fit. As any country that opposes US could be added to the list (Syria, Libya, Sudan & North Korea are listed too). "Free" and/or "Open Source" philosophy are not owned by US government.

Source Forge is not just for developers (CVS,...); It's also important for End Users. So it should be a full transparent proxy.
Mirroring will have many problems. Not for End Users who want only to download releases, but for Developers who need to upload. They will get an additional delay to get source updates due to periodic synchronizing of all data.

Also, It must be Dedicated to Source Forge because general and public proxies always get filtered.

Entity* Company/University/Non-profit Organization
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Solution #4: Solution #4: Comply with US State/Treasury Dept Changes to Regulations
Written by pdisney the 1 Feb 10 at 17:54.
On December 15, 2009, the US State Department notified Congress that it has recommended to the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control that sanctions prohibiting free mass market software downloads to users in Iran be waived. (http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2009/SASC.IranReport.121509.pdf)

OFAC is widely expected to issue a General License authorizing downloads of software necessary for communication and sharing information online for users in Iran, and possibly other countries as well.

Thus, it is bizarre that SourceForge would choose to bar users in Iran and other countries at precisely the time these regulations are being reconsidered. Once the General License is issued by OFAC, SourceForge should reopen access to all users in countries covered by the revised regulations.

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project admin response to negative project reviews  
Written by bhaas the 30 Jan 10 at 23:54. New
Users can leave negative project reviews based on some problem experienced, and currently the developers or others cannot respond to it with helpful feedback.
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Solution #1: Allow comments on project reviews
Written by bhaas the 30 Jan 10 at 23:54.
Allow users and project administrators to respond to negative reviews by attaching a comment to it.

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Speed up software development and increase quality by means of a buildbot.  
Written by lambermo the 28 Jan 10 at 22:22. New
I want to help the stellarium.sf.net project by adding a continuous build integration system in the form of a buildbot.
In short : a buildbot.sf.net master is a lightweight python daemon receiving svn,svc,etc. commits and instructing off-site buildslaves to start a compile run and report the results back to the buildbot master. The results are typically shown in a 'waterfall' web page, but can also be emailed or sent to an irc channel etc.
See http://buildbot.net/trac/wiki/ScreenShots for examples.
I've briefly discussed the plan on #sourceforge@freenode with hinojosa and jonrafkind and was pointed to the ideatorrent.
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Solution #1: Add buildbot master hosting to SF services.
Written by lambermo the 28 Jan 10 at 22:22.
I'd like to propose a new (?) SF service: continuous build integration by means of a buildbot master. The accompanying buildbot slaves will not need to run at SF for obvious resource reasons, instead they will run elsewhere at users' homes, offices, compile farms, etc. And on all sorts of hw/sw combinations.

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[Hosted Apps] web interface to translate PO files  
Written by tim4dev the 4 Feb 10 at 14:00. New
Allow multiple people to translate files (PO and other) for multilingual projects.
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Solution #1: Pootle or similar
Written by tim4dev the 4 Feb 10 at 14:00.
In the "SF-> Hosted Apps" set to something like Pootle (online translation management tool with translation interface)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/translate/

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show the project feed on websites  
Written by kazzmir the 5 Feb 10 at 18:51. New
I would like to show the project feed on my own website. The project feed is currently shown on sf.net/projects/myproject.

I would use this to let visitors know about recent changes in my project without requiring them to visit the sourceforge site.
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Solution #1: create API that exports the project feed
Written by kazzmir the 5 Feb 10 at 18:51.
The sourceforge.net site should support some sort of API that exports the project feed.

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Way to pull xml-exports automatically  
Written by nhnb the 25 Jan 10 at 21:03. New
Hi,

it is currently possible to make backups of source code using rsync automatically. Backups of the forum and tracker items are only available if you have a valid http-session, so it is not easy to pull those automatically.

I am currently reading up the history of the Arianne project because we have a birthday ahead. 10 years ago the newly founded project lost all their work because the free webspace provider went out of business. The project was moved sf.net and restarted. We have been here for 10 years now and are very happy.

But I am a bit nervous about not having backups of our announcements, forums posting and tracker entries. Those are (non code) history of our project. I don't except anything serious is going to happen to this data, but in German we have a word which may be translated as: "The burned child, avoids/fears the fire".
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Solution #1: http basic auth for xml-export
Written by nhnb the 25 Jan 10 at 21:03.
If you try to post an entry to SF.net trac and you are not logged in, you get an http basic authentication prompt.

It will be very cool if that xml-export script does the same thing. Then we could easily use wget with username/password to fetch the backup once a month in a cron job.

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"R" is a popular scripting language not yet listed in the Trove  
Written by mrpete the 20 Jan 10 at 19:06. New
"R" is a widely used scripting language for statistical analysis and more. We have new projects that make heavy use of R.

R should be added to the list of languages in trove categories.
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Solution #1: Add R to the Trove
Written by mrpete the 20 Jan 10 at 19:06.
Add the following Programming Language category to the Trove:

Programming Language :: R


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Add syntax highlighting extension to mediawiki  
Written by jvmenen the 13 Jan 10 at 20:49. New
Since SourceForge is all about code it would be really very great if the extensions\SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi was supported so code on the mediawiki can be shown formatted.

I have seen many questions on the bug list about this, so hope this will be implemented soon.
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Solution #1: Add extensions\SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi to mediawiki
Written by jvmenen the 13 Jan 10 at 20:49.
There is an extension available to make this possible:

extensions\SyntaxHighlight_GeSHi

See point 2.3 on this page for more info:
http://nl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Handboek_MediaWiki/Extensies#C.23_voorbeeld

Thanks,
Jeroen

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Outdated  
Written by cybernet2u the 16 Jan 10 at 15:44. New
View VC oudated

changes from 1.0.5 ( currently used )

Version 1.1.3 (released 22-Dec-2009)

* security fix: add root listing support of per-root authz config
* security fix: query.py requires 'forbidden' authorizer (or none) in config
* fix URL-ification of truncated log messages (issue #3)
* fix regexp input validation (issue #426, #427, #440)
* add support for configurable tab-to-spaces conversion
* fix not-a-sequence error in diff view
* allow viewvc-install to work when templates-contrib is absent
* minor template improvements/corrections
* expose revision metadata in diff view (issue #431)
* markup file/directory item property URLs and email addresses (issue #434)
* make ViewVC cross copies in Subversion history by default
* fix bug that caused standalone.py failure under Python 1.5.2 (issue #442)
* fix support for per-vhost overrides of authorizer parameters (issue #411)
* fix root name identification in query.py interface

Version 1.1.2 (released 11-Aug-2009)

* security fix: validate the 'view' parameter to avoid XSS attack
* security fix: avoid printing illegal parameter names and values
* add optional support for character encoding detection (issue #400)
* fix username case handling in svnauthz module (issue #419)
* fix cvsdbadmin/svnadmin rebuild error on missing repos (issue #420)
* don't drop leading blank lines from colorized file contents (issue #422)
* add file.ezt template logic for optionally hiding binary file contents


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Solution #1: Upgrade View VC
Written by cybernet2u the 16 Jan 10 at 15:44.
download the latest viewvc version ( 1.1.3 ) from http://viewvc.tigris.org/


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Ability to define default packages  
Written by ulf82 the 12 Jan 10 at 10:56. New
I currently have a project with two code trees. There is a stable tree where not much is happening, and a development tree/rewrite that is rather unstable and incomplete. In the file release system, I would like to have the ability to define the stable tree as the one that is shown first when I click on the "File" button.

As it is now, the _latest_ release is always shown first, which is of course from the development tree; and from the download section, I can estimate that far too many people download this version, and might get a completely wrong impression of the program.
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Solution #1: Add a "default package" action to the File Manager
Written by ulf82 the 12 Jan 10 at 10:56.
In the file manager, add an action "mark as default" to mark a package/release as the one to be shown first in the file section.


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Allow Posters to Edit Comments  
Written by techfrc the 4 Feb 10 at 01:52. New
Everyone makes mistakes. A good bug tracker, wiki or forum system should always allow edits of posts.
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Solution #1: Use available software that has the feature built in or program it.
Written by techfrc the 4 Feb 10 at 01:52.
As the few words above states, either make the feature available in the sourceforge.net proprietary software, or use one of the fine, available open-source applications which can solve the problem (and offer other great features to boot).

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svn commit hook to close trac bugs  
Written by kazzmir the 19 Jan 10 at 17:32. New
Users should be able to close trac bugs via svn commit messages.
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Solution #1: Use existing commit hook
Written by kazzmir the 19 Jan 10 at 17:32.
A post commit script has been written for subversion that allows trac bugs to be closed by parsing the commit string. Something like:

$ svn commit -m 'close-ticket:234'

Script url: http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/contrib/trac-post-commit-hook

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Bazaar Email Notifications  
Written by elberry the 2 Feb 10 at 18:47. New
It would be nice to have Bazaar Email notifications similar to those for SVN and CVS.
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Solution #1: bzr-email-notifier, or bzr-email plugin.
Written by elberry the 2 Feb 10 at 18:47.
The bzr-email-notifier can be set up to scan all branches and send out emails on any changes to those branches. It is also configured outside of each branch making it easy to configure on a per project basis.

The bzr-email plugin needs to be installed on the server and I believe is configured on a per branch basis.

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Show 7z files with archiv file icon  
Written by gerundt the 1 Feb 10 at 13:58. New
In the "Files" view have *.zip and *gz files an archiv icon (with zipper):
http://sourceforge.net/projects/nocc/files/

*.7z files are shown just with a document icon, but are archives too.
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Solution #1: Show 7z files with archiv file icon
Written by gerundt the 1 Feb 10 at 13:58.
It would be nice, if *.7z files have also this archiv icon:
http://www.7-zip.org/

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Hosted app / support for translations  
Written by riddles the 12 Jan 10 at 21:08. New
Many projects on SF.net have support for multiple languages, translations.
Editing gettext files through version control is not always easy for non-developers, but it's an area where lots of project users are willing to help out.
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Solution #1: Hosted app for text translations
Written by riddles the 12 Jan 10 at 21:08.
It would be very helpful to have a better interface for translations, preferably with gettext support (import), online editing of translations, simple stats and export back into files. Providing an interface for translating strings, texts and messages would be a major improvement for sf.net.
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Solution #2: Install Specific App
Written by raulferriz the 19 Jan 10 at 10:02.
I think that offering a good web translation app, like Pootle could be a good solution.

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Allow custom blog title for wordpress hosted app  
Written by georgwacker the 26 Jan 10 at 14:56. New
Currently, it is not possible to change the name of the blog, it always reverts back to "SourceForge.net: User xy".

It's great to have wordpress as a hosted app, but it needs to be more customizable.
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Solution #1: Allow custom blog titles
Written by georgwacker the 26 Jan 10 at 14:56.
I don't know if this is a technical hoop or simply a strategic choice to brand all blogs with SF. Anyway, I think this will greatly increase the use of the wordpress hosted app.

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Allow to migrate tickets from SF Trackers to SF Trac  
Written by techtonik the 24 Jan 10 at 22:33. New
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Solution #1: Add support for migrating tickets
Written by techtonik the 24 Jan 10 at 22:33.
There are scripts to import tickets from SF to Trac. Allow people to use them and import data back, or do the conversion yourselves.

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