On 2 July 2014 05:08, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> You may have noticed that Ports' project space on SourceForge has been
> slow since the "upgrade" to their new Allura platform, particularly with
> the git web interface.  As bad as it is for all of you, the
> administration side has been completely unusable.
>
> The cause is how their code handles multiple repos in a single project
> doesn't expand well to hundreds or thousands of repos:
>
> https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/6347/
>
> After months of stalling, today they finally admitted that they're not
> going to fix this anytime soon.  Therefore, I think the time has arrived
> for a new git hosting solution.
>
> My major criteria are:
>
> * Capacity for thousands of git repos in one project without performance
> degradation;
>
> * Ability to add git repos from the command-line (e.g. ssh, REST, etc.)
>
> * Low cost
>
> If anyone has any suggestions, I would be glad to consider them.

Bitbucket and GitHub both provide these. They're free for an unlimited
number of open source repositories, AFAIK cope just fine with large
numbers of repositories (I assume they have to given how widely
they're used), and there are APIs for creating new repos:

https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#create
https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BITBUCKET/repository+Resource+1.0#repositoryResource1.0-POSTanewrepositoryRedDEPRECATED

Adam Dinwoodie

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