It is the natural, trimmed-down continuation of the SourceForge software.
I have used SourceForge extensively and Savannah minimally. Both are good services. Savannah is a bit more trimmed down, but I have found that Savannah's servers are not quite as available as SourceForge's. I cannot comment on GForge, but I plan on hosting a project there in the near future to experiment.
I think your choice boils down to issues of visibility and ideology. The choice is clear if you (a) want large numbers of people to (potentially) see your work (SF), or (b) are a rapid GNU adherent (Savanna). I guess GForge is unclassified as of yet...
Best,
Joe
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Joseph R. Kiniry
LOOP Project, SOS Group, Computing Science Department
University of Nijmegen
--On Wednesday, January 22, 2003 03:06:18 PM +0000 Brian McGuiness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Further to the discussions the other week, i've looked into both Sourceforge (www.sourceforge.org) and Savannah (www.savannah.nongnu.org)Sourceforge (SF) is larger (~55,000 projects, ~550,000 users) compared to Savannah (SV) (~1400 projects, ~13,000 users) although both seem to offer very similar functions - CVS repository, home page, mailing lists, download area, etc. SV has a much truer 'open source' philosophy than SF - your project must be available on at least one non-proprietary OS, must have a GPL compliant license and cannot require, incorporate or link to non-free software. Both have a registration process where they evaluate your project and don't have to let you pass, but it seems this happens very infrequently. My only worry would be the OCF license not being compatible with SVs GPL requirement but we could look into that. I know that there were some changes to the SF Terms & Conditions a while back which some people didn't like as they claimed it left scope for SF to run off with your project some time in the future or start charging subscriptions for access but I don't know how likely either of these would be. There was some discussion on it at Slashdot about a year ago see http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/02/13/188234&mode=nested &tid=150 I'm not overly bothered which one we go for. I find the SV pages slightly nicer on the eye but SF has a much larger user base which may make it more attractive. Any comments? Any other repositories? Has there been any feedback from the OCF Board?
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