SourceForge alternatives?

Posted 13 Dec 2001 at 20:00 UTC by matt Share This

I'm looking for hosting for some free software projects. In a past article comment, hacker alluded to "dozens of alternatives", but I've been only able to find savannah and hacker's SourceFubar site.

I feel the hosting decision is best made now rather than after momentum is gained, so I'm curious what else is out there...


I've been happy with seul.org, posted 13 Dec 2001 at 23:44 UTC by ShredWheat » (Master)

I personally can say lots of good things about SEUL. www.seul.org

This is a much smaller scale server located inside the MIT network. Unlike sites like sourceforge, seul is completely non-automated. So everything is setup by actual users and by yourself once you get your account and SSH in.

I don't know how actively SEUL is pursuing more projects to host. If it sounds like it might be a match for your project, you'll want to start by looking over the hosting info.

Currently they host a few semi-popular opensource projects, like pygame (mine, woohoo), worldforge, tinylinux, pingus, xarchon, xpenguins, gftp, freehaven, etc.

Some more hosting links, posted 14 Dec 2001 at 10:07 UTC by creinig » (Journeyer)

Well, if you're looking for something automated etc like sourceforge, there are also Tigris and BerliOS. If you don't need the automated thingy or even prefer a more personal contact with you hosts, there are e.g. the SunSITEs, for example Sunsite Denmark (disclaimer: I'm a little admin there :)

ibiblio (aka metalab aka sunsite) hosting, posted 14 Dec 2001 at 18:00 UTC by gregorsamsa » (Master)

We host many projects at ibiblio.org. Our is much less structured than SourceForge, but we offer many of the same services and all with open source software.

cvs hosting at cornerhost, posted 16 Dec 2001 at 23:44 UTC by sabren » (Apprentice)

Hey, I offer commercial cvs hosting. $10/month for a cvs pserver, or $5/month with a web hosting account. (no, it's not free, but you get a lot of personal attention for the price)

http://www.cornerhost.com/cvs/

Hosters, start your engines..., posted 20 Dec 2001 at 01:27 UTC by slef » (Master)

What do people running hosting sites need to know in order to be able to configure a hosting facility for a project? That's what we're trying to work out at coopx.eu.org so that it can be included in an XML description of a project's hosting. It would be nice to see more people who run hosting sites active in the lists, or even just watching so they can implement things once standardised.

Hosters, start your engines..., posted 20 Dec 2001 at 01:28 UTC by slef » (Master)

What do people running hosting sites need to know in order to be able to configure a hosting facility for a project? That's what we're trying to work out at coopx.eu.org so that it can be included in an XML description of a project's hosting. It would be nice to see more people who run hosting sites active in the lists, or even just watching so they can implement things once standardised.

CoopX Project Hosting and Relocation Template (XML), posted 22 Dec 2001 at 09:07 UTC by hacker » (Master)

I have a very long email to send to those representing CoopX about my personal requirements of project hosting and management. I have read all of the messages in the CoopX mailing list archives, and have briefed myself on the current issues as discussed there, as well as the vision.

I haven't yet seen many of the important points of managing a project hosting facility covered, so this email should cover at least my own requirements, which extend those of what something like Sourceforge and others provide. I am very much into mobliity, flexibility, and manageability. Much of the facilities behind services like Sourceforge tend to forget that by design. It's almost engineered out. I hope that CoopX can continue in the vein of Open Source and project development and management by considering the faculties and functions that Sourceforge lacks (currently).

Managing several Open Source projects of my own, as well as being the "meister" in some cases on other Open Source projects keeping things moving in the right directions, there's a lot more to it than just PROJ_NAME, PROJ_MAINTAINER, CVSROOT, RELEASE_DATE, and so on. Distributed and collaborative development involves many, MANY facets and skills that are not easily discernable from the upper crust of a web interface, but are very important to those managing the project, the source code, the workload, the delegation of tasks, the bugs, and the team itself.

A project is more than just code.

Tigris, and what's really needed, posted 6 Jan 2002 at 07:59 UTC by turing » (Journeyer)

I host binarycloud at Tigris, and have pretty good experiences with them.

I always disliked SourceForge (binarycloud started there) because of its atrociously bad design and inflexibility. Later, their policies decended into the ludicrous and I found Tigris to be a lot more reasonable.

I think what would be better than a service like SourceForge or Tigris would just be a cheap hosting company that offered:

CVS (pserver) SSH1/2 shell to a VirtBSD or Linux Apache w/ Tomcat, PHP, Perl, Py, Tcl Database (MySQL, Postgres) MLM + Interface Simple News Post w/XML Syndication Simple File Upload/Mgmt ViewCVS (via chora) Issue Tracking... Bugzilla (for the moment) Basic User/Membership Management

I'm thinking of doing that once binarycloud r2 is out, sort of as a side business. It would require a certain amount of work as all of the tools aren't quite there, but certainly with a bit of work one coule make it all happen.

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