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Users write about solvable problems in "User Reviews"  
Written by rberber the 1 May 12 at 17:17. Global category: Project Reviews. New
In my project I have several user reviews that are either questions, or descriptions of a problem.

An orientation message at the top of the "User Reviews" page would tell them to use the "Help Forum", or whatever help channel is available if they really want an answer.

Most of those comments are very simple questions, or problems... and unless I see them, and try to contact the user, those are not going to get answered or resolved.

Note: Original title should be "Orientation message in \"User Reviews\" " I should delete this... but there is no delete option.
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Solution #1: Add a stock message
Written by rberber the 1 May 12 at 17:17.
All "User Reviews" pages could use a fixed message asking the user to direct their questions/problems to the help channel.

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Blog on User website (Wordpress, MySQL, sane URLs)  
Written by johannesbuchner the 14 Apr 12 at 21:50. Global category: Developer Web. New
I want to run my personal blog on myname.users.sf.net.
However,
* The Wordpress offered as a managed app has extremely ugly URLs!
https://sourceforge.net/userapps/wordpress/myname/
This violates the good URI principles http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html and is unfriendly. I would like myname.users.sf.net/blog/
Never would I give others my blog as https://sourceforge.net/userapps/wordpress/myname/
* I can't run Wordpress by myself, because the user web account doesn't permit a database!
* I can't write a mod_rewrite rule because they are different servers!
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Solution #1: Provide sane URLs for managed apps
Written by johannesbuchner the 14 Apr 12 at 21:50.
currently, "how we do it" is part of the URL (/userapps/wordpress/). Nobody cares about that. It wastes space and looks ugly.
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Solution #2: Provide a shortened URL service
Written by johannesbuchner the 14 Apr 12 at 21:51.
Make myname.users.sf.net/blog/ rewrite to https://sourceforge.net/userapps/wordpress/myname/
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Solution #3: Allow using a database on Developer Web
Written by johannesbuchner the 14 Apr 12 at 21:58.
If I could make use of a MySQL database, everything would be fine.

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Sort by, a new item (old?) in the list  
Written by roberto674 the 12 Apr 12 at 18:57. Global category: Search. New
Hi,

There is a field, Sort by, when you browse for projects.
That field contains four options: Most Popular, Last Updated, Name, and Rating. Through these fields you can order the list of projects.
Is there a way to order the list of projects by the least update ones?
That is, the contrary to what you get with Last Updated.
I didn't find it. The only solutions appear to browse all 80 thousands of pages to arrive at the end.
If I don't wrong remember, many years ago there was a way to order the list of projects by the 'Least Update" ones.
Is it possible to have this options too?

Thanks
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Solution #1: Sort by, a new item (old?) in the list
Written by roberto674 the 12 Apr 12 at 18:57.
My solution:
add a new item in the drop down list box, Sort By, in order to be able to rder the list of projects with the "Least Update" ones first.
I think it is a simple query database change.

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Visitors should not see deleted spam and such.  
Written by ddekany the 10 Apr 12 at 21:35. Global category: Tracker. New
Usually users will not even realize those entries are deleted. They just look at the tracker and see a lot of junk, and think the project is not maintained.
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Solution #1: The default status filter should be "non-deleted"
Written by ddekany the 10 Apr 12 at 21:35.
The default status filter should be "non-deleted", which would show all items whose status is anything but "deleted".

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Improve Joomla Compatability with Sourceforge  
Written by stuchalk the 6 Apr 12 at 09:52. Global category: Project Web. New
Admin Tools extension for Joomla is the best admin component support the Joomla CMS. I am sure many users are implementing their project websites with Joomla and would like to use Admin Tools.

There is an issue with Admin Tools (and other Joomla components) i.e.

A project I have "AnIML" uses Joomla 1.5 for the website. Installing Admin Tools I get the following message when try to update Joomla or the admin tools component.

Live Update is not supported on this server
"Your server indicates that Live Update is not supported. Please contact your host and ask them to enable the cURL PHP extension or activate the URL fopen() wrappers. If these are already enabled, please ask them to configure their firewall so that it allows access to the following URL:";

http://cdn.akeebabackup.com/updates/atcore.ini
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Solution #1: Allow outbound connections on Sourceforge
Written by stuchalk the 6 Apr 12 at 09:52.
I understand that for security reasons scripts cannot currently call out from sourceforge servers (or something close to that). Please consider changing this, adding a config option for a project so that it can be enabled if needed, or making an exception in this case. Joomla is a great CMS and the sourceforge community would benefit greatly.
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Solution #2: Add Joomla to "Hosted Apps" to be sufficiently supported
Written by rado the 29 Apr 12 at 08:24.
Rather than having everybody mess around with their individual install, provide a "standard" solution easy to use, if it's really so widespread.

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project-web developers could utilize JEE technologies  
Written by blankdvlpr the 30 Mar 12 at 20:04. Global category: Project Web. New
I write most of my web pages as Spring MVC applications, which requires a compliant JEE container. Spring's web MVC framework is effectively a servlet wrapper with some comfortable features.

I wouldn't need anything particularly special to support this type of development, just a Tomcat installation which is routed all web traffic that is not handled by the standard Apache installation.
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Solution #1: Make a Tomcat Hosted App
Written by blankdvlpr the 30 Mar 12 at 20:04.
If installing a Tomcat hosted app reconfigured the standard project-web server to point traffic to Tomcat, but left the rest of tomcat management up to the project team (starting services, what jars are available, etc), then this could potentially be implemented trivially.

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project stats on user's page, files page  
Written by jmichae3 the 28 Mar 12 at 03:25. Global category: Project Web. New
I would like to see the weekly download stats for ALL my projects (I have 20-30) on my user page such as https://sourceforge.net/users/jmichae3
next to the link for the project. the project names are typically short enough to allow for enough whitespace for either an iconized stats or a simple number like 26downloads/wk or 26DL/week or 26DL/wk, however you want to do it.
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Solution #1: 50% opacity number and graph, different colors
Written by jmichae3 the 28 Mar 12 at 03:25.
I would like to see the weekly download stats for all my projects (I have 20-30) on my user page such as https://sourceforge.net/users/jmichae3
next to the link for the project. the project names are typically short enough to allow for enough whitespace for either an iconized stats or a simple number like 26downloads/wk or 26DL/week or 26DL/wk, however you want to do it.

I personally would prefer seeing a number rather than an icon only, since I can see the list of numbers easily and I don't have to hover over each one for 2 seconds to get a number, that's too much work.

I have an idea for the iconized stats which may work.
graph in one color like orange #ff9933 from the visibone color wheel's color blind web safe color-blind palette on 1 layer with 50% opacity, number centered horizontally and vertically in icon/box/div/span/whatever with color blue #3399ff, also from the visibone color wheel's color blind web safe color-blind palette. has contrast since they are opposites on the color wheel. see visibone.com to get the color wheel (I like the laminated "book").

maybe make the graph wider than it is tall maybe by 2-3x to handle large numbers?

or direct me to the project which covers these web stats so I can make the requests?

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"Looking for the latest version" set to a folder  
Written by vasole the 19 Mar 12 at 13:30. Global category: File Release System. New
Hello,

There are projects for which the user may be interested on getting the latest source release instead of the latest binary release. In addition, there are codes for which a 64 bit and a 32 bit version exist.

The current way of setting default download to a particular file is confusing because it hides those possibilities unless "Browse all files" is pressed. Being able to set a default browsing folder instead of a default download file seems desirable and very convenient.

Thanks for your time.
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Solution #1: Possibility to set the default download not only to files but also to folders
Written by vasole the 19 Mar 12 at 13:30.
Currently one can set the default download file for different platforms. The very same interface could be allowed to set a folder as default download. In that case, the button currently providing a direct link would just open the selected release folder in the browser.

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Add Natural to list of programming languages  
Written by mwessjoh the 19 Mar 12 at 07:42. Global category: Trove Categories. New
Hi,

we startet here the first Projekt NatUnit ( http://sourceforge.net/p/natunit/) in Natural (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATURAL).
Please can you added the language to the programming languages list.

Thanks

Markus Wessjohann
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Solution #1: Add Natural to list of programming languages
Written by mwessjoh the 19 Mar 12 at 07:42.
Add Natural to list of programming languages

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Add TicketDeletePlugin to trac  
Written by p0l0 the 14 Mar 12 at 10:05. Global category: Hosted Apps - Trac. New
I have got more than 1000 spam tickets from 1000 different registered users, it would be great if I could delete them.
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Solution #1: Install TicketDeletePlugin
Written by p0l0 the 14 Mar 12 at 10:05.
The plugin http://trac-hacks.org/wiki/TicketDeletePlugin gives the option to delete tickets from the Web Interface

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allow upper lower case usernames; revert!  
Written by astara the 14 Mar 12 at 01:00. Global category: Account Control. New
This would allow people who use to have such names to login - since now they can't type in their password and login, and typing in the lower case username + password doesn't match.

And instead of disallowing lowercase usernames , support at least the standard MS supports -- of Preserving but ignoring case. -- that will prevent problems with case issues, or ID's differing only in case.

It would be more user friendly and smarter -- especially to allow those who had uppercase user names to login without having to go through email recovering when they aren't ssure what email account a login went to ..... *whistling innocently***.....

Developer comments
Hello,

We never allowed upper-case in our usernames, only in the display names.

With that said the suggestions to ignore case on login, and to set the casing on display are good, so I'm approving this as a valid idea for voting.

Regards,
Chris Tsai, SourceForge.net Support
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Solution #1: revert!
Written by astara the 14 Mar 12 at 01:00.
And instead of disallowing lowercase usernames , support at least the standard MS supports -- of Preserving but ignoring case. -- that will prevent problems with case issues, or ID's differing only in case.

It would be more user friendly and smarter -- especially to allow those who had uppercase user names to login without having to go through email recovering when they aren't ssure what email account a login went to ..... *whistling innocently***.....
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Solution #2: User Comments.
Written by lindaathena the 4 Apr 12 at 20:29.
I used to login with 'LindaAthena'. It was saved in 3 separate browsers.

I had to use password retrieval to login because the login screen would not accept my original signup username. You may never have allowed upper-case in usernames, but it was accepted and quietly converted to lower case behind the scenes -- so this was transparent to us. If you believe they were never allowed, I would bet the change was in the front-end web code -- that it, internally changed a typed name to all lower case before storing it or comparing it against the userbase.

Perhaps passwords used to be case insensitive, and that was changed, so someone decided to also strip the case lower-code for entering user names?

Whatever the case, if you only accept lower case user names, then good user-interface design would dictate that you would ignore case (and always convert to lower case before doing compares). I have a feeling that might be what was done, but that it also was done for passwords. Someone noticed that case was ignored in passwords fixed it, and noticed the same issue with logins and "fixed" that too.

It also might be related to moving to HTML5, using UTF-8 instead of iso-8859-1. In the latter, changing case was a simple as "|" (or) with 0x20. But it's a bit more involved in UTF-8.


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Add a better captcha to phpBB forums  
Written by joeranb the 10 Mar 12 at 13:21. Global category: Hosted Apps - phpBB. New
It's great that sourceforge users can install a phpBB forum, as we did here https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/docear/

However, the captcha used by that phpBB installation is really bad. It's either too easy to read so that spammers can spam the forum or it's so hard to read that spammers can't detect it but human users can't read it neither.

So, please change the captcha to a more effective solution.
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Solution #1: exchange the captacha
Written by joeranb the 10 Mar 12 at 13:21.
use another captcha, e.g. http://www.google.com/recaptcha

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better stats when it come to operating systems  
Written by jessrpm the 5 Mar 12 at 18:42. Global category: Statistics. New
Currently, when I look at download stats for my project, I see 'Linux', 'Windows', 'Macintosh' and 'Unknown'.

A lot of downloads are detected as coming from an 'Unknown' and I suspect the OSs detected are such are not really that exotic :)

This is not so much a feature request but rather, a question, what algorithm do you use to detect the operating system? Perhaps it can be improved..
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Solution #1: This depends on what is currently done to detect the OS
Written by jessrpm the 5 Mar 12 at 18:42.
This depends on what is currently done to detect the OS.

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Add Admin Create Trigger authority to project database  
Written by mrcompiler the 4 Mar 12 at 15:22. Global category: Project Web. New
Closely related to the 'create procedure' idea is the requirement to create and manage triggers in even the most simple non-trivial database. Restriction of these permissions is often driven by concerns about load, however this is often a false economy. The load is distributed differently because data replication results from the inability to effectively manage database relations or to otherwise manage the capability programatically.
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Solution #1: Enable the use of stored procedures and triggers in Beta 2.0 projects
Written by mrcompiler the 4 Mar 12 at 15:22.
If SF were to enable this capability in Beta 2.0 projects for a 180 day test period it would be a significantly differentiating technology for the new interface. If load or other issues arise the project can be terminated.

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Support StartSSL.com openid  
Written by peternsteinmetz the 2 Mar 12 at 23:43. Global category: Account Control. New
StartSSL.com is a great affordable certificate provider which also makes available openid's that authenticate with your local certificate.

Their openid implementation doesn't work with sourceforge, though does with several other sites, such as LightHouse.

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Solution #1: Support version of openid
Written by peternsteinmetz the 2 Mar 12 at 23:43.
I don't know why sourceforge doesn't work with openid from startssl, but I presume it is due to the lack of one feature in the standard which is not presently supported.

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Admin only forums  
Written by wb8tyw the 28 Feb 12 at 00:56. Global category: Forums. New
I would like to have forums are restricted to site administrators to cover and track issues with shared project management.

Currently forums only have the options of being open to the public or restricted to developers.

Chris Tsai, !SourceForge.net Support has given me the following work around:

Install a separate forum tool, and configure the tool-wide permissions via Admin -> Tools.
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Solution #1: Add a privilege setting to restict a forum
Written by wb8tyw the 28 Feb 12 at 00:56.
Add an additional privilege setting to forums that allow restricting them to the project administrators.

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Rename topics in forums.  
Written by wb8tyw the 28 Feb 12 at 00:38. Global category: Forums. New
The beta forum system does not have the ability to rename topics to more accurately reflect what they are about.

It should also have the ability to detach posts from one topic and start a new topic with them for moderating a fork in the discussion.
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Solution #1: Add the ability to rename topics by admins or original poster
Written by wb8tyw the 28 Feb 12 at 00:38.
Would like the ability to admins to edit a topic title.

It may be a good idea for the original author of a topic to be able to rename it to correct spelling errors.

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Help wanted link on homepage  
Written by timeth the 21 Feb 12 at 09:14. Global category: User Interface. New
Just as the title suggests. I'm always looking for projects to help out with but have to search around for the URL to go directly to the 'Help wanted' page because there's no link to it anywhere >
www.sourceforge.net/people
(I never remember to make a bookmark)
There used to be a link to it before the renovations happened.


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Solution #1: Provide a link
Written by timeth the 21 Feb 12 at 09:14.
Put a link on the homepage.

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File- and project names containing non-ASCII characters  
Written by patguano the 19 Feb 12 at 19:25. Global category: Project Control. New
Hi.

1. File-names may contain non-ASCII characters.
Uploading such files, I see that the non-ASCII characters are replaced by a white-space.

2. My project Crème Fraiche cannot be found by the search-function.
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Solution #1: Allow special characters to be handled correctly.
Written by patguano the 19 Feb 12 at 19:25.
PSE do not replace non-ASCII characters in file-names.
PSE update the search function.

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Modifiable amount for donations  
Written by accakut the 19 Feb 12 at 04:21. Global category: Donations. New
If your budget is very limited 5$ are too much too support all your favorite projects. And even larger amounts are fixed so that it is hard to decide between e.g. 50$ and 100$. Let the donators decide how much money they have to give.

I do not think that it will decrease the donations at all since only a few donators will spend less money whereas more users will donate... perhaps it could be a bit more laborious to choose an individual amount than using the predefined buttons. Tactics ;-)


Or are there problems with the transactions (e.g. fix costs per pay)?
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Solution #1: Modifiable amount for donations
Written by accakut the 19 Feb 12 at 04:21.
As mentioned above, let the donators choose the amount. Place an inconspicuous link beside the Paypal-buttons and perhaps watch the trend of donations.

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