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Trac admin can't install plugins  
Written by bwithrow the 28 May 09 at 20:50. New
The SF Trac offering doesn't provide a way for the Trac admin to install any of the plethora of Trac plugins. This severely hobbles the Trac offering in many instanced.
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Solution #1: Allow Trac admins to install plugins
Written by bwithrow the 28 May 09 at 20:50.
Provide a way for Trac admins to install plugins. Or at the very list, install a large percentage of them and allow Admins to enable the ones desired.

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Support ssh authentication for subversion  
Written by salty-horse the 9 May 09 at 15:50. New
The Sourceforge Subversion service only supports write-access over https.
* http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Subversion#Authentication

Other SCM services provided by Sourceforge, such as CVS, Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar, all support write access over SSH.
* http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sourceforge/wiki/CVS%20client%20instructions#R ead-Writeaccess
* http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Git#Authentication
* http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Mercurial#Authentication
* http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sourceforge/wiki/Bazaar#Authentication

Is there any reason not to support the svn+ssh protocol? It is more secure than a username/password pair, which Subversion caches by default on the machine.
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Solution #1: Add support to svn+ssh
Written by salty-horse the 9 May 09 at 15:50.
Nothing left to add :)

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Enable svn commit-hooks for Trac Hosted App  
Written by nhruby the 11 May 09 at 17:42. New
In a SVN commit message to a SourceForge.net subversion repo when you make a comment such as:
"fixes #89"
the ticket references by "fixes" (89 in this case) in the SourceForge Trac HostedApp instance should automatically be closed. Currently it doesn't (so far you have to go in trac and close it manually).
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Solution #1: Add commit hook provided by Trac as option for SVN
Written by nhruby the 11 May 09 at 17:42.
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Solution #2: Should propose trac-post-commit-hook as svn hook
Written by malat the 19 Aug 09 at 10:25.
It would be nice if trac-post-commit-hook was among the possible hook for the svn server. By default the setting would use the hosted Trac.

See
http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInstall#AutomaticreferencetotheSVNchangesetsi nTractickets

Thanks

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@users.sourceforge.net addresses should block spam instead of tagging it  
Written by christian_boltz the 15 May 09 at 20:53. New
(initially reported on https://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/sourceforge/ticket/724)

Since some weeks, I receive an increasing amount of spam sent to my @users.sourceforge.net mail address.

These mails are clearly tagged as spam by SF (often X-Spam-Score is higher than 15), but it's still happily forwarded to my "real" mail address.
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Solution #1: REJECT spam instead of tagging it
Written by christian_boltz the 15 May 09 at 20:53.
Please REJECT spam (before even accepting it in the SMTP dialog) instead of forwarding it to your users.

The same is true for mailinglists - mails detected as spam should never be delivered to/by any SF mailinglist.

Sidenote: My server does spam checking while receiving the mail, and REJECTs the mail if it looks like spam. Unfortunately all blacklist checks are bypassed because the SF mailserver is used as a relay, therefore many spam mails look less spammy.

Sidenote 2: In case a mail is so spammy that my server rejects it, the SF mailserver will send a bounce to the sender. You probably know that most spam mails contain a faked sender address, so the SF server will generate backscatter...
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Solution #2: assp
Written by henca the 26 May 09 at 06:15.
http://assp.sourceforge.net/

Kills most spam before it reaches the server
Automatically maintains the spam and non-spam databases.
Licensed under the GPL
Senders receive immediate notification if mail is blocked but no erroneous bounces are ever generated.
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Solution #3: Offer Option to DISABLE Your @users.sourceforge.net Address
Written by linuxwhore the 27 May 09 at 20:27.
Some people (myself included) would rather not be contacted directly. It's Ok for SF.net admins or automated thread watchers to contact me, but I would rather handle all other project communications via the Forums.

If private messages are really a necessity, perhaps you should offer a PM system instead. Other sites seem to have no problems with this. I don't know why this should be such a problem for SF.

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Unable to import data to hosted apps.  
Written by firebrand_kh the 9 May 09 at 00:03. New
We are actually unable to use the hosted apps offering, because we are already running a phpBB forum on our own server, but for management reasons we want to change it to use the SF.net hosted app, but we can't import the data from the running app to the hosted app.
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Solution #1: Allow importing of data for hosted apps.
Written by firebrand_kh the 9 May 09 at 00:03.
A way to import data for hosted apps.

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Add phpBB Themes  
Written by kevogod the 16 Jun 09 at 16:18. New
Hosted phpBB forums do not allow the use of additional themes. Not everyone likes the default theme.
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Solution #1: Add phpBB Themes
Written by kevogod the 16 Jun 09 at 16:18.
Add additional themes to the themes directory in the phpBB installation.

The ability to have access to the themes directory for custom themes would also be a solution.

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Automatic migration from tracker to Trac  
Written by agussman the 19 May 09 at 16:09. New
I would like to begin using Trac to manage my Bugs and Feature Request tickets, replacing the existing Tracker system. I would like to automatically transfer over my open tickets. as well as the historical record of all my closed tickets, from Tracker to Trac.
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Solution #1: Enable migration functionality
Written by agussman the 19 May 09 at 16:09.
An item in the UI, or when enabling Trac, that will automatically migrate by Bugs and/or Feature Requests from Tracker to Trac.

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Statistics should include hosted apps activity (trac at first)  
Written by feroda the 17 Jun 09 at 22:08. New
I have just uploaded my company project in Sourceforge.net along with the whole Subversion repository. We use to manage the development process with TRAC, so I've requested and enabled it.

In trac we create and manage tickets: this is an activity for our project and we would like that it contributes to sourceforge.net statistics computation.

I think that the same policy should be applied to other hosted apps: wordpress blog posts or ideatorrent "ideas in development" or "implemented ideas", but this is not needed for us now.
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Solution #1: Develop specific backends batch scripts (for batched statistics)
Written by feroda the 17 Jun 09 at 22:08.
If some of your statistic results are computed on values obtained through batch operations, you could "simply" add specific backend for a specific value of a specific hosted app.

I.e. for trac on sqlite3 do nightly:
# sqlite3 trac.db select count(*) from ticket_change;
and get the total amount of ticket updates.

Then apply your alogrythm to compute activity...

I'm sure the solution is more complex than this simple stupid hint proposed by me,
but ... i play the game !

Thank you for you wonderful support
feroda


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Sourceforge's ideastorm site should be more easily findable  
Written by nanotube the 18 Jun 09 at 14:12. New
I came across it completely accidentally once, and then had a really hard time trying to find it again. It's great that you put this app up, but if it's hard to find, its usefulness is limited. It should be linked to from some high-profile page...
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Solution #1: place links to ideastorm on the main community and help pages
Written by nanotube the 18 Jun 09 at 14:12.
community and help pages seem like good places to have a direct link to ideastorm.

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Without the Git plugin, Trac when using Git is severely hobbled  
Written by bwithrow the 28 May 09 at 20:47. New
If you use the SF Git offering and Trac, you really want to have the two integrated. Currently one can't add any plugins to Trac. SF has to do that.
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Solution #1: Install the Git Plugin globally for all Trac uses
Written by bwithrow the 28 May 09 at 20:47.
SF should install the Trac plugin so it is enableable by all project trac users.

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Thumbs down is not appropriate for free software  
Written by chrisguk the 14 Sep 09 at 13:55. New
Someone gave an anonymous "thumbs down" to one of my projects, without even bothering to say what it was they didn't like! I worked hard for many weeks on this project, and I offer it for free, with free support. I am really upset and discouraged by this thumbs down. I feel like I have been kicked in the teeth. Why do I bother to offer my software and my time for free? What kind of stupid crazy idiot am I for doing this? It really made me think. I should make better use of my time. I have already dropped my plans to publish one new project and upgrade another.

Compare this with giving bad feedback on eBay. First, eBay encourages users to have exhaustive dialog to resolve a dispute before leaving bad feedback as an absolute last resort. The system warns you that leaving bad feedback is extremely serious and should not be undertaken lightly. And of course, you cannot do so anonymously. And of course eBay is about products that are being bought and sold, so in some cases bad feedback can be justified.

Here on SourceForge, developers work hard and give their time and expertise for free. I don't think that "thumbs down" is even remotely appropriate in this environment. Thumbs up is fine, but thumbs down is wrong here and should be removed. If users don't like something in a project, they should engage in constructive dialog with the author, or better still, offer to help. Just giving a thumbs down is rude and ignorant and we should not encourage this kind of behaviour here.
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Solution #1: Remove it completely
Written by chrisguk the 14 Sep 09 at 13:55.
Just remove it.
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Solution #2: Require comment when giving "thumbs down"
Written by hcorg the 14 Sep 09 at 20:12.
Disallow empty comments when sending "thumbs down". Add support for reporting spam/offensive content of comments.
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Solution #3: Disallow annonymous "thumbs"
Written by hcorg the 14 Sep 09 at 20:22.
Anonymous thumbs can be overused in both ways: pro and against project.
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Solution #4: Allow project admins to remove thumbs
Written by chrisguk the 15 Sep 09 at 07:32.
We are giving products away for free here! We must have the ability to remove unjustified derogatory comments!
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Solution #5: Allow to disable the rating/review feature
Written by trilarion the 15 Sep 09 at 11:30.
Basically a copy of a part of solution #1 of idea 270. Some projects will well get along fine without any kind of rating. It should be a free decision. Are the products really getting better by a simple rating?
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Solution #6: Allow project members to respond to thumbs.
Written by nanotube the 17 Sep 09 at 20:41.
Similar to the ebay feedback system, project members/developers should be able to respond to thumbs, either positive or negative.
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Solution #7: Allow disable feature + disable anonymous + require comment + project response
Written by fredt the 20 Sep 09 at 21:18.
Several options are needed. At the moment projects can be spammed by anti-opensource visitors.

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Implement e-mail notification for monitored IdeaTorrent articles  
Written by ghostvoodooman the 5 Jun 09 at 15:39. New
I have submitted few IdeaTorrent articles, and for some that were submitted by others I made a comment. I need to bookmark into my browser each IdeaTorrent article I made or contributed to. This is not so comfortable.
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Solution #1: Implement "Monitor this article" checkbox
Written by ghostvoodooman the 5 Jun 09 at 15:39.
It would be nice if there were a checkbox "monitor this artifact" as it was on old sf.net UI. Also, it should be checked for user by default. When user contribute to article by a comment, or submit new one to IdeaTorrent, and that checkbox were checked, then user will be notified by e-mail for their sf.net mail alias that something on monitored artifact has been changed (e.g. comment added, or some meta-data property of it has been changed, and so on).
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Solution #2: Present Monitored Items on Dashboard
Written by thisemptyroom the 14 Jun 09 at 09:42.
Instead of emails notifying us of changes and new items why not present all monitored items on the user's homepage, or dashboard, or the profile page of SF? That way if I've marked ideas then I can follow them on my page, just like projects. Ideas could be, essentially projects, as they are in a way projects for enhancing other projects. So if I've edited ideas, or want to monitor someting else on the site, those changes to those items should appear on my page when I login, so I know what's new in the SF world, without having to constantly bookmark, and update bookmarks. It would lead to tremendous increase in project awarness.

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Add ReviewBoard to Hosted Apps  
Written by mvanbaak the 5 May 09 at 15:18. New
Reviewboard is a very nice codereview system that can talk to a variaty of SCM systems.
It also has a very nice cli tool to post new reviewrequests or updates directly from your sourcetree.
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Solution #1: Add ReviewBoard to HostedApps
Written by mvanbaak the 5 May 09 at 15:18.
Please.

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Preferred Support Mechanism isn't easy to find  
Written by mhnoyes the 7 May 09 at 17:48. New
Issue: Users having difficulty contacting project members for support.

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Solution #1: Change Preferred Support Mechanism UI prominance
Written by mhnoyes the 7 May 09 at 17:48.
Solution: Please change the SF UI so the project "preferred support mechanism" is displayed prominently on the SF project page.
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Solution #2: Project Support Buton
Written by hinojosa the 7 May 09 at 18:05.
I'd like for the preferred support mechanism to cause an obvious button to show up on project summary pages that when clicked will take the user to either a Hosted App solution, a mail list, tracker, forum, or a project web page.

The button should be bright and obvious so that visitors, if looking for support can get what they need from that project. That will also allow site support to direct users to that page to get the help they need with a single click.

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Lets add Bugzilla to hosted apps  
Written by happy-slapin the 20 May 09 at 12:32. New
Bugzilla ( http://www.bugzilla.org ) is powerful and popular, largely deployed bug tracking system with proper implementation of bug life cycle and lots of fancy things. It is often can't be replaced by things like Mantis (not mentioning Trac's tocket system because it is even less powered). Bugzilla has its own niche and a lot of people are used to it.
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Solution #1: Add bugzilla to hosted apps
Written by happy-slapin the 20 May 09 at 12:32.
1. Add bugzilla
2. ???
3. Profit
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Solution #2: Flyspray is a good bug tracker too
Written by eeve the 18 Jun 09 at 19:25.
Bugzilla might be overkill for many smaller projects. What about something like flyspray? (http://flyspray.org/)

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Import existing trac wiki on sourceforge's trac hosted app  
Written by danmcgoo the 4 Jun 09 at 08:29. New
We have an existing trac wiki for our project.
But we decided to move our project to sourceforge.

The problem is that there is not easy way to import our wiki content to the sourceforge's trac wiki.
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Solution #1: Allow access to trac-admin in the ssh session
Written by danmcgoo the 4 Jun 09 at 08:29.
I read somewhere on the net that the import of a trac content could be made if we have access to the trac admin tools (For example: trac-admin,...).

It would be great if we can access to these tools on our ssh session on shell.sourceforge.net

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Migration of phpBB data  
Written by ulf82 the 9 Jun 09 at 08:26. New
Our project intends to use the sourceforge hosted apps phpBB offering because maintaining an own phpBB with all the limitations of the web servers is a bit annoying. However, we now _do_ have the data from the old forum around, so it would be nice if one could somehow migrate it.

The downside here is of course that it takes some time to implement it, and by the time it is implemented, many (such as us now) may have switched without migrating the data, so that this feature is slightly obsolete.
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Solution #1: Automatic migration of data
Written by ulf82 the 9 Jun 09 at 08:26.
Since phpBB forum dumps are essentially a bunch of SQL INSERT statements, it should be possible to insert this into the hosted apps forums in some automated way.

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Sourceforge is slow  
Written by tilman3 the 4 Aug 09 at 16:31. New
Just navigating round the site can be a painful experience. TortoiseSVN access is also excrutiating (although svn browsing is fast).
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Solution #1: Make it faster!
Written by tilman3 the 4 Aug 09 at 16:31.
I appreciate you have a lot of data and a lot of traffic, but it's getting to the point where I'm considering alternatives.
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Solution #2: Compress & Optimize files
Written by frank107 the 16 Aug 09 at 20:54.
When you optimize files, you won't need to raise the bandwidth limit.
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Solution #3: Systematic performance improvement
Written by aditsu the 2 Sep 09 at 17:13.
First I would like to point to http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html as a general guide for improving a site's performance.

I suggest starting with these 4 points:
1. Consolidate resources
This very page where I'm submitting this solution generated 37 http requests. Most of them are for css, javascript and image files, which could be combined and marked as cacheable.
2. Optimize html
The actual html part of this page had 34KB, I doubt this is all necessary.
Also, putting stylesheets at the top and scripts at the bottom can speed up page loading.
3. Profile and fix bottlenecks
Use profilers to find which parts of the code take more time. Replace stupid code, optimize queries, reduce contention and improve the use of caching to speed things up.
4. Add more resources
Add/upgrade database servers, cache nodes, application servers, get more bandwidth, etc. as needed and feasible

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project members deserve to be visible on project page  
Written by ndegendogo the 17 Aug 09 at 22:26. New
The previous SF user interface showed a link to the list of all project members on the project summary page. This is only fair, as they are the folks who do the actual work.
The new SF user interface, however, shows only a list of the administrators of a project, on the project summary page, and on the developer page.

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Solution #1: Activate existing widget also for small projects
Written by ndegendogo the 17 Aug 09 at 22:26.
The new user interface should be extended with a link to a list of all project members, not only administrators. This link could be placed either on the project summary page, or on the development page.
A widget already exists which provides a link to all project members, and also a greeting message for new project members. Currently this widget is active only for large projects ( 6 members plus).
This widget could be activated also for small projects.
Alternatively the widget could be configurable so a project can decide on its own whether it wants to show such a list.

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This allows to add more complex templates to MediaWiki.  
Written by old_death the 5 Oct 09 at 19:30. New
The ParserFunctions extension is what you need to add more complex templates to MediaWiki. It allows (below other things) to check whether parameters of templates are defined or not.

About the extension's usage within templates:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Parser_functions_in_templates

The specific example I have is a navigation template which should take as parameters in correct order the sites between the Wiki main page and the current site.

Example:
Navigation|Manual
would give me a template containing the following Text (including the respective links):
ShareazaWiki / Manual / *titleofthecurrentpage*

Navigation|Manual|Advanced
would become:
ShareazaWiki / Manual / Advanced / *titleofthecurrentpage*
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Solution #1: Install ParserFunctions extension on MediaWiki
Written by old_death the 5 Oct 09 at 19:30.
Documentation on the ParserFunctions ext.:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:ParserFunctions



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