http://sourceforge.net or the shortcut
http://sf.net
SourceForge hosts
FreeSoftware projects. It is a service to the
FreeSoftware community, delivered by
VaLinuxSystems. It is free
OpenSource, Linux-driven and some of the services it provides are:
- webspace
- bug-tracking system
- discussion forums
- mailing lists
- ConcurrentVersionsSystem (CVS) repositories
- Wikis
- compile farms
(Note:
SourceForge itself is no longer exactly
OpenSource (was it ever) - while previous versions of the code are available, the latest version is
ClosedSource. It's still aiming to host
OpenSource projects, though.) Open source
SourceForge development is now at
GeeForge. --
TomCopeland
In the beginning of 2002,
SourceForge hosts more than 32.000 projects with over 330.000 registered users. There is a wide range in liveliness in them: Some are not much more than an 'I would love to develop this' project; others are quite large and alive (e.g. KDE,
PythonLanguage, JBoss).
In late June 2003,
SourceForge announced that it would gently start culling dead projects (those with no released files and zero activity). At this point, they have over 63 000 projects; it will be interesting to see how many fall foul of even this conservative definition of 'dead'.
(Note: as of Autumn 2001,
SourceForge supports several flavors of Wiki; this amounts to a
WikiFarm. Their staff should be queried for details.)
SourceForge is the largest
ProjectHost.
There are several other (much smaller) sites that host with open source software projects.
For example,
GnuSavannah (
http://savannah.gnu.org/ ) and
BerliOs (
http://developer.berlios.de/ ).
See
HelpSourceForgeSuck,
HelpSourceForgeSucceed
I installed a
UseModWiki in my project's web space, and while it sorta worked, the CGI was way too slow for it to be useful, and so I moved the wiki to another domain. Is there a better way to create a SF-hosted wiki? Above, it says that
SourceForge supports wikis and is essentially a
WikiFarm. Will SF set up a well-performing wiki for you? --
KrisJohnson
Instructions on installing
PhpWiki into a
SourceForge project's web space can be found at
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/PhpWikiOnSourceForge -- James Cameron (aka Quozl)
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