From: Andrej N. G. <an...@re...> - 2013-04-21 16:54:31
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Hello! PCMan has written on Sunday, 21 April, at 23:48: >I keep searching for better free project hosting this weekend and found this. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities >Wikipedia contains a page dedicated to comparison of free project hosting. >>From the tables, I found some better ones more suitable for our needs. >1. Berlios: >Highly resembles old sourceforge.net, but its future seems to be more >uncertain and has shortage of manpower. >It was planned to be shut down in 2011. >http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37450 >Then, because of rescue for others, it continues. >http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37533 >Though it still works now in 2013, these events raises some questions >about how long it will keep working. That is a bit sad. >2. GNU Savannah: >This one is far less polished and less well known, but I guess it will >be continued as long as GNU exists? I think the same. It's probably the best choice. It uses CGit as GIT browser though and CGit misses 'diff to current' mode that is present in GitWeb. I used that mode number of times so I like GitWeb more. :) >3. CodePlex (by Microsoft): >Yes, read carefully, it's powered by Microsoft. >Except for the political problems (it's a Microsoft product and closed >source), technically it's a good project hosting website. It provides >most of the features we need, including a nice issue tracker. >Well, hosting a Linux/*nix project on Codeplex makes me feel that >Microsoft is supporting Linux and free software development and that >feeling is good. :-) I don't trust Microsoft even a bit. I'm sorry. :) >4. Google code (blobked in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria) >Because it's not availble in some countries, I considered this a >poorer option. To my suprise, sourceforge.net is also blocked in these >countries as well. So, by moving to Google code we do not loss any >users since sf.net is not available to them, either. >However, if we're going to move to other project hosting, I prefer one >that's freely available for developers/users from all countries. So >this is a bad option. And with their latest behavior I cannot trust Google much as well. :) >Please, comments and discussions are wanted. >Or, are there developers who do not want to move and want to stay with >the new sf.net user interface? At least SF.net suspended migration of LXDE/PCManFM for now and they told me they want to fix every regression. I've reported few of them in their tracker already. So no rush required for now, we'll be still on the former interface. As I said earlier, migration of tracker to another hosting will be a huge headache because I'm afraid we'll just lose all the tickets in the process and start new tracker from scratch. It's why I want to stay with SF.net as long as possible, to keep trackers data. But if they never fix new interface then we'll have no choice but migrate. And we can do kind of smooth migration: leave old tracker with note that we were moved and leave all tickets there until they are closed. Developers will have to work with two trackers though in that case... Andriy. |