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[Dunit-interest] FW: SourceForge.net Update: October 21, 2002
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From: <ju...@su...> - 2002-10-23 02:24:57
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Here's the latest from Source Forge. I find the NNTP/Web Forum interface very appealing. Juanco -- Juancarlo A=F1ez Modelistica mailto:jua...@mo... http://www.modelistica.com +58 (414) 303-8719 Cel. +58 (212) 761-5432 Of. --- -----Original Message----- From: SourceForge.net Team [mailto:no...@so...]=20 Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 3:32 AM To: ju...@su... Subject: SourceForge.net Update: October 21, 2002 (You have acquired this SF.NET update because you requested to be on the list. Honest! An explanation is at the bottom of this email, and also info on how to be extracted from the list) 0. Intro 1. New 'Remember me' Feature 2. Anonymous User Handling 3. SF.NET Support Update 4 NNTP Beta Test 5. Site Statistics --- This SF.NET Sitewide update is sponsored by GoToMyPC: Introducing a revolutionary technology ZDNet calls "a remarkably simple and effective Web service that lets you log into your home (or work) PC from another machine anywhere on the Internet." Fast. Easy. Secure. Try Free Today. https://www.gotomypc.com/s/OSDN/SF --- Hello, This week on SourceForge.net, we cross two large milestone: 500,000 registered users and 50,000 registered projects on the site. To give you some idea of the site's growth, in December 2001 (~10 months ago), we celebrated 300,000 users and 30,000 projects. The Open Source community continues to thrive, and your participation and devotion is changing the way the world writes and maintains software. Today, we are announcing many new features on the site: A 'Remember Me' feature that allows the system to remember you between sessions. No need to login every time. For some time, this has been something we have wanted to provide, but we have held off because of security concerns. We've solved the security issues with a 2nd tier login system, and hence the feature is now available. Enjoy. This has been our number one feature request. We are also today starting a beta test of a NNTP server on SourceForge.net. You can now read forums, and soon mailing list archives, by using a simple newsreader, such as the one included in browsers such as Mozilla, Internet Explorer, and Netscape. If you hate using the web to read forums, this is the feature for you. More information on these new features are below. Earlier this month we launched a new content feature: Project of the Month. Every month we are selecting a single project to put in the spotlight. This month it is 'gaim', a fantastic multi-protocol instance messenger client that works on all the *nixes and Windows. Read more about gaim here: http://sourceforge.net/pom.php Finally, I want to make a shameless plug for one our sister websites. ThinkGeek today re-launched its site with a new design and new products. In my opinion ThinkGeek has done a great job improving the navigation and availability of the products. The SF.NET team's favorite products are the caffeinated soap (we're more zippy in the morning ;-) and Smart Putty (an adult version of Silly Putty). If have you a have moment, check out the new design: http://www.thinkgeek.com Again, thank you for your support of SourceForge.net and the Open Source community. If you have any questions/issues with the site, please email me directly at Pa...@sf.... Pat- Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net pa...@sf... 1. Addition of the "Remember Me" Feature ------------------------------------------ The SourceForge.net team is proud to announce a new convenience feature, persistent login. Normally, your SourceForge.net login session expires when you close all instances of your web browser, or when you reboot your workstation. The persistent login feature, enabled by checking the "Remember Me" box on the SF.net login page, stores a special cookie on your workstation. This persistent login cookie allows you to do common SF.net operations (such as responding to Tracker items or posting to forums; but not user account management, or more advanced project administration operations) without logging-in, even after a workstation reboot. Additional information regarding this new feature is provided at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3D759&group_id=3D1#s= emi login 2. Changes to Anonymous User Handling ------------------------------------------- We have also improved the permissions handling code for the SF.net Tracker tool (that comprises Support Requests, Bug Reporting and Feature Requests), in response to several cases of abuse. We recommend for, and strongly encourage, all projects to disable anonymous Tracker posting (this must be done from the "Update Preferences" section of the Admin page for each Tracker). We are committed to keeping Tracker abuse to a minimum, and appreciate those who have taken the time to report abuses. To reach the SourceForge.net team, submit a Support Request at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=3Dadd&group_id=3D1&atid=3D200001 On 2002-10-18, SourceForge.net staff will disable the ability for anonymous (unauthenticated) users to monitor Tracker items, forum postings, and file packages. All existing monitors created by anonymous users (many are a year, or more, old) are to be purged on this date. Those users who previously established a monitor anonymously and who wish to continue monitoring the Tracker item, forum posting or file package in question, should login to SourceForge.net and re-enable monitoring. This change solely concerns anonymous monitoring and does not concern monitors established by users when logged-in to SourceForge.net. 3. SourceForge.net Support ------------------------------------- My name is Jacob Moorman; I am the Quality of Service Manager for SourceForge.net. In managing the support process for SourceForge.net, we have continued our efforts to improve support response times, the quality of the documentation we provide, and the overall effectiveness of our support processes. The SourceForge.net team is glad to respond to any issues you may encounter in using SourceForge.net, as a user, as a developer, or as a project administrator. To reach the SourceForge.net team, we ask that you submit a Support Request at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=3Dadd&group_id=3D1&atid=3D200001 The Support Request queue for SourceForge.net (the "alexandria" project) uses the Tracker facility (as well as the other tools we provide to hosted projects) of SF.net. We have found this to be an effective support tool, allowing us to provide a timely and complete response to almost all inquiries. Documentation regarding our support processes and procedures is provided in the Site Documentation collection for SourceForge.net and is located at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3D11230&group_id=3D1= Want to keep informed about site changes, outages, and plans announced since the latest SF.net newsletter mailing? The SourceForge.net team maintains a "Site Status" page, which provides timely details of known issues, planned maintenance, and new site features. This document, accessible using the "Site Status" link in the left navbar of SourceForge.net, may also be accessed at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=3D2352&group_id=3D1 The SourceForge.net team writes and maintains an extensive set of documentation regarding the use of SF.net site features and services. For the past year, many updates and additions to this collection have been made each week. Although our effort to complete the rewrite (and expansion) of this documentation is not yet complete, we still recommend that all site users familiarize themselves with the information we provide, and that users experiencing site usage issues check for applicable documentation in the SF.net Site Docs collection. The SF.net Site Documentation collection may be accessed using the "Site Docs" link in the left navbar of SourceForge.net, or at: https://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=3D1 I welcome feedback regarding our support process and your experiences in using SourceForge.net. I may be reached via email at: mo...@so... 4. NNTP Beta Test -------------------------- Today we are launching an early beta release of a new feature on SourceForge.net. This feature makes it possible to view and post data to forums using a simple newsreader (exactly like using USENET newsgroups). Here's the information to login and try it out. The hostname of the NNTP server is 'nntp.sourceforge.net' and the port NNTP is listening on is 563. (nntps, SSL-protected NNTP) We allow only SSL connections. You need to use your SourceForge user name and password to login. The currently supported clients are Mozilla and Outlook, however we've followed the NNTP RFC; any client that does NNTP over SSL /should/ work. Please let us know if you have problems with a specific client. (Please see below) Posting works, with one caveat: to limit SPAM we limit the amount of posts to 10 in a 5 minute period, after which we deny posting for some time for that user account. NOTE: This is real data. Posts will show up in your forums! =20 Please keep this in mind. Here is an example of the NNTP naming we've chosen, it is much like the project web tree. "sf.a.al.alexandria.open_discussion" will get you the "Open Discussion" forum for project "alexandria". Mailing lists are currently _not_ available but will be available in the near future. If you would like to report bugs, ideas, or anything else please subscribe to the beta mailing list at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mcgoo-nttpbeta Please keep in mind that the server is beta and will more than likely crash. Please don't send 1000 emails to list saying the server is offline; we'll fix it as soon as we get a chance. Please send any bug reports, odd behavior, or problems to this list. Thank you. Issue reports regarding this new beta feature should not be submitted as Support Requests; please direct all inquiries to the list. 5. Statistics ---------------------------------- Hosted Projects: 49,310 (ok, we're close to 50,000 and 500,000) Registered Users: 498,957 SF.NET Pages served on Oct 18th, 2002: 4,200,000 million pages. SF.NET emails sent on Oct 18th, 2002: 985,000 emails. SF.NET Open Source Apps downloaded on Oct 18th, 2002: 385,000 Top 20 Projects based on Activity. (Ranking/Percentile) 1 Gaim (100.000) www.sf.net/projects/gaim Gaim is an all-in-one IM client that resembles AIM. Gaim lets you use AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu, all at once. Gaim is NOT endorsed by or affiliated with AOL, Yahoo, MSN or Napster. 2 Gimp-Print - Top Quality Printer Drivers (99.990) https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/ A very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS. This project also maintains the Print plug-in for the Gimp from the same code base. 3 SquirrelMail (99.980) https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/ SquirrelMail is a PHP4-based Web email client. It includes built-in pure PHP support for IMAP and SMTP, and renders all pages in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It also has MIME support, folder manipulation, etc. 4 phpMyAdmin (99.970) https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin/ phpAdsNew is a banner management and tracking system written in PHP. Currently it can manage multiple banners (any size) per advertiser, view daily, overall and summary statistics and send statistics to advertisers via email. 5 phpAdsNew (99.960) https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpadsnew/ phpAdsNew is a banner management and tracking system written in PHP. Currently it can manage multiple banners (any size) per advertiser, view daily, overall and summary statistics and send statistics to advertisers via email. 6 eMule (99.949) https://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/ eMule is a file sharing client which is based on the eDonkey2000 network but offers more features than the standard client 7 Firewall Builder (99.939) https://sourceforge.net/projects/fwbuilder/ Object-oriented GUI and set of compilers for various firewall platforms. Currently implemented compilers for iptables, ipfilter and OpenBSD 8 Dev-C++ (99.929) https://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp/ Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32 and Linux. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set. 9 Bochs x86 PC emulator (99.919) https://sourceforge.net/projects/bochs/ Bochs is a portable x86 PC emulation software package that emulates enough of the x86 CPU, related AT hardware, and BIOS to run Windows, Linux, *BSD, Minix, and other OS's, all on your workstation. 10 ScummVM (99.909) https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm/ ScummVM is an implementation of LucasArts's SCUMM interpreter, used in games such as Monkey Island and Day Of The Tentacle. 11 JBoss.org (99.899) https://sourceforge.net/projects/jboss/ The JBoss/Server is the leading Open Source, standards-compliant, J2EE based application server implemented in 100% Pure Java. 12 Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution (99.888) https://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere/ Smart ERP+CRM solution for small-medium enterprises (SME) in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality. 13 Fink (99.878) https://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/ Fink is an attempt to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X. Packages are downloaded and built automatically and installed into a tree managed by dpkg. 14 TUTOS (99.868) https://sourceforge.net/projects/tutos/ TUTOS is the ultimate team organization software, a web-based groupware or ERP/CRM system to manage events, calendars, addresses, teams, projects, tasks, bugs, mailboxes, documents and your time spent with these things. 15 FreeCraft real-time strategy game engine (99.858) https://sourceforge.net/projects/freecraft/ This is a free cross-platform real-time strategy game engine. It is possible to play over LAN, Internet or against the computer and to build C&C, W*rCr*ft, St*rCr*ft or AOE like RTS games with it. Currently only a W*rCr*ft II compatible theme is available. 16 PCGen -- A Character Generator (99.848) https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen/ PCGen is a java character generator and maintenance program. All data files are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway. 17 MegaMek (99.838) https://sourceforge.net/projects/megamek/ MegaMek is a networked Java clone of BattleTech, a turn-based sci-fi boardgame for 2+ players. Fight using giant robots on a hex-based map. 18 YahooPOPs! (99.828) https://sourceforge.net/projects/yahoopops/ YahooPOPs! is an application which emulates a POP3 mail server and provides free POP3 access to Yahoo! It does not depend on Yahoo's POP3 mail server. You can use a POP3 mail client of your choice! 19 Miranda IM Client (99.818) https://sourceforge.net/projects/miranda-icq/ A free Win32 instant messaging client. Smaller, Faster, Easier. 20 Track + Project Manager (99.807) https://sourceforge.net/projects/trackplus/ Track+ is the must have tool for project managers and project members to keep track of action items, work packages, problem reports, change requests, etc. With just a few clicks one gets comprehensive reports on the status of a project, new or late items. The reason you are receiving this email. ---------------------- When the SF.NET team sends out a site-wide email, we sometimes see replies that look like this: "Hey! I didn't ask to be on this list! You spammer. I hate you! I hate your dog! (insert other colorful phrases here)". The truth is, when you registered on SourceForge.net there was a check box that said "Receive Site-wide updates, low volume". You left it checked when you submitted the registration form, hence you are receiving this email. We send these updates every 4 to 6 weeks, so it truly is low volume. However if you want off, this is not a problem. 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