I keep searching for better free project hosting this weekend and found this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities
Wikipedia contains a page dedicated to comparison of free project hosting. >From the tables, I found some better ones more suitable for our needs. 1. Berlios: Highly resembles old sourceforge.net, but its future seems to be more uncertain and has shortage of manpower. It was planned to be shut down in 2011. http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37450 Then, because of rescue for others, it continues. http://developer.berlios.de/forum/forum.php?forum_id=37533 Though it still works now in 2013, these events raises some questions about how long it will keep working. 2. GNU Savannah: This one is far less polished and less well known, but I guess it will be continued as long as GNU exists? 3. CodePlex (by Microsoft): Yes, read carefully, it's powered by Microsoft. Except for the political problems (it's a Microsoft product and closed source), technically it's a good project hosting website. It provides most of the features we need, including a nice issue tracker. Well, hosting a Linux/*nix project on Codeplex makes me feel that Microsoft is supporting Linux and free software development and that feeling is good. :-) 4. Google code (blobked in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, Syria) Because it's not availble in some countries, I considered this a poorer option. To my suprise, sourceforge.net is also blocked in these countries as well. So, by moving to Google code we do not loss any users since sf.net is not available to them, either. However, if we're going to move to other project hosting, I prefer one that's freely available for developers/users from all countries. So this is a bad option. Please, comments and discussions are wanted. Or, are there developers who do not want to move and want to stay with the new sf.net user interface? Thank you. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Andrej N. Gritsenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > PCMan has written on Friday, 19 April, at 1:25: >>The benefit of free hosting is quite obvious. >>Minimal maintanance, proper backups, download mirrors, minimal >>downtimes, stable and reliable bandwidth, free of charge, and >>everything works out of the box. >>Though we can have our own hosting, if possible, using a free one is better. > > Completely agree. > >>Regarding to bug trackers, bugzilla is quite complete, but its UI is >>really too bad for ordinary end users. It's a pity that Google is not >>available in some countries. > >>It came to my mind that there are two sourceforge derivatives. >>http://savannah.nongnu.org/ >>http://developer.berlios.de/ > >>Both are derived from the very old sourceforge.net code. >>So they look very similar to the original old sourceforge.net many years ago. >>They provide everything now we're using from sf.net. > > They both look pretty good, BTW. BerliOS even have two GIT browsers, > each have own nice sides and both are much better than Allura. > >>Moving away from sf.net not only means we need to get a new bug >>tracker and git repos, but it also means that we need to recreate all >>of the user accounts and settings the permissions properly. If >>possible, migrating old bugs to the new systems. >>That's quite a lot of work which I'd like to avoid. > > That was exact argument why I was against any moves last summer. > Well, migration of GIT and users permissions are simple enough. But > migration of tracker is not. > >>Can we submit support requests to sf.net staff asking for some help? >>I did not see any options in the new admin UI to turn off the stupid >>"new features". >>I don't like the new UI, either, but I'd like to avoid migrating >>everything to minimize the effort needed, if possible. > > I've asked to prevent upgrade at their advertisement page already. > I'll ask them again by other means as well. At least they keep hsqldb > from upgrade for now (some of developers said that in comment) so I hope > they can do it for us as well. But I'm not sure how long that status quo > will last anyway. They treat SF as their toy but it's a tool for us. Why > they don't want to understand that? > > Andriy. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. 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