[xquery-talk] OT: Suggestion for new OSS SCC site / tool for xmlsh ? SourceForge has gone to the dark side.

Adam Retter adam.retter at googlemail.com
Mon Nov 25 06:52:09 PST 2013


Hi David,

I have been upset by the decline of SourceForge for several years now.
Even before this installer junk, it seemed to me that each consecutive
website re-design that they forced on us was worse and slower than the
previous. The final straw for me was that their new Subversion web
browser interface (after they asked everyone to move their svn repo's)
is now sooo slow it's basically broken!

In eXist we made the decision to move to GitHub. It was not easy and
there was a learning curve for those new to Git, but the collaborative
coding mentality of GitHub is awesome. Also Git itself is just years
ahead of SVN and I cannot imagine going back now. As a bonus, we now
also receive pull-requests for fixes from people we have never heard
of, presumably because its so simple to do that. I really think GitHub
is the best game in town and has been for some time.

We had a pig of a time moving from SourceForge (we have been there for
longer than I can remember), we originally used their CSV before they
had SVN. However, after going through the pain, if you want to do it,
I can make your life easier by explaining how we migrated from
SourceForge to GitHub without loosing any revision history.

Cheers Adam.

On 25 November 2013 14:23, David Lee <dlee at calldei.com> wrote:
> I am so annoyed by this thread and the associated links which seem to clear
> the FUD
>
> http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/
>
>
>
> Basically SourceForge has been bought by Dice and now is encouraging users
> to use their Malware infected  (well "Encouraged Additional Applications you
> Didnt Ask For")
>
>  installer (like the Oracle Java installer) that drive-by installs other
> junk.
>
> I hosted on SourceForge originally 6 years ago because I felt it provided a
> (by association with other good quality OSS) sense of quality and respect to
> an OSS project.
>
> Now the opposite is true, I might as well host on aol.com
>
>
>
> Suggestions welcome ... I've really only used the deployment and SVN server
> component of SF ... and event those I could host myself but I do find it
> useful to let people
>
> browse the code history online.
>
>
>
> Do I need (want to?) learn "git" ? and move to github ?  My "Git" experience
> so far has been disappointing (I cant figure it out !  The model makes  no
> sense and I never know if stuff is checked in or not)
>
> I have some projects on google code which has been sufficient and
> trustworthy as sites go ... but it has that "google owns you" creepiness
> factor.
>
>
>
> Suggestions welcome ...
>
> Self host ? Github ? Google Code ? Others ?
>
>
>
> Oh yea, I *rarely* plug this ... but if you feel so inclined you may want to
> spread the news about SF ...
>
> So far their drive-in installer download is "opt in" (to the developer) ...
> but the direction is sad.   It was ad sponsored enough already ....
> "Infecting" installers,
>
> even if approved by the vendors, is just too much for me to take.
>
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
>
> David A. Lee
>
> dlee at calldei.com
>
> http://www.xmlsh.org
>
>
>
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