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New Community Manager

I am pleased to announce that Daniel Hinojosa has rejoined our team as Community Manager.

Daniel formerly served as the SourceForge Support Manager from 2007 to 2010. Daniel returns with his passion for Open Source software and helping the OSS community succeed.

Whether you’re meeting Daniel for the first time or reconnecting from the old days, feel free to reach out to him at d at slashdotmedia dot com

Project web and Code Repositories Unavailable – UPDATED

There’s an outage for the Project web space and code repositories. Our teams are investigating and working to get this restored as soon as we can. Until this is restored, project code browsers will show an “empty” message.

We’ll update this as this is resolved.

UPDATE: Project web and Code Repository Services are back online.

Best Regards,
Chris Tsai, SourceForge.net Support

Code browser updates temporarily halted

Greetings,

We’re performing some backend upgrades to help improve our site service, during this time, updates to the code repository viewers will be put on hold. This only impacts the repository viewer, and will not affect the repositories themselves, you will still be able to access them directly as normal (checkouts, clones, commits, etc.). We will update this post when this is completed.

UPDATE: the backend changes are complete and the code browsers are updating again.

Regards,
Chris Tsai, SourceForge.net Support

Project Navigation UI Update

A long awaited update is finally here. Since we’ve started moving projects to the new platform, there’s been an inconsistency between the project navigation bars between different project pages. This has now been addressed, and the navigation bar looks the same across the various project pages. To give you an idea of how different the navigation was,

Before:

Summary page

before_summary

Tickets page

before_tickets

After:

Summary page

after_summary

Tickets page

after_tickets

 

Ah, that’s much better. And it’s not just the styling that’s changed, if you look closely at the actual items in the old navigation bar, a few items (Summary, Files, etc.) might appear in one place, but not the other, or their order may differ. This has now been fixed so that the navigation bar contents will always match. We also revamped the space above the nav bar to be more appealing (and consistent between tools).

Finally, a shortlist of some other navigation improvements that have been made in recent weeks:

  • Similar tools are grouped together to save space in the navigation bar (the threshold is configurable on Admin -> Tools)
  • Drop down menus for grouped items
  • Capitalization is now consistent with the label setting

US Memorial Day Holiday

Greetings,

SourceForge staff will be on vacation for the upcoming US Memorial Day Holiday. We will monitor for any urgent issues and address them as appropriate during this time. Our regular hours for support coverage will resume on Tuesday, 2013-05-28.

Best Regards,
Chris Tsai, SourceForge.net Support