SourceForge.net Gets a Shiny New Look

Post by recoil » Fri, Mar 04, 2011, 7:09 AM UTC

hallmark wrote: post #10

recoil wrote: post #9

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Just spent about 10 minutes searching for how to get the source code for a project and I'm utterly unable to find it. Care to enlighten us all? Do you need to be logged in?

It may depend on the project, but here's one positive example. I went to the home page, then clicked on one of the featured projects. I've used Chicken of the VNC before, so there I went: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cotvnc/ Next, click on 'Develop.' On the new page under Repositories > CVS, there is a link to 'browse code': http://cotvnc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cotvnc/ Agreed, it is definitely not GitHub.

Thanks! It definitely seems to depend on the project. If there's no repository configured then you can't browse the source. I made the mistake of assuming everything would have a repository though. Some projects (e.g. 7zip) seem to rely on you going to a separate home page and finding the source there instead.

Post by xiongchiamiov » Sun, Mar 06, 2011, 3:35 AM UTC

Udo wrote: post #2

It's a great redesign (even if it's clear where they got the inspiration from) and one can only hope for a " simple foundation for the rebirth of the entire SourceForge.net site " as they say on the front page. Because it's been a while since I hosted my last project on SF, and it's been ages since I last saw anyone else use anything but GitHub for a code repository. SourceForge has de facto become a free distributio…

BitBucket's popular in the Python community, and I see a fair amount of stuff on Google Code. Open-source projects who want to use git but prefer a FOSS forge tend towards Gitorious. Some people even use Launchpad, although that tends to be mostly just Canonical.

Of course, none of these sites are Source Forge. Too little, too late.

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