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GForge 4.0 Released 23

Posted by timothy from the connecting-pieces dept.
jaaron writes "Ever wanted your own personal SourceForge? If so, then be sure to check out GForge which just released version 4.0. GForge is a fork of the original GPL'd SourceForge code and like sf.net provides forums, mailing lists, revision control via CVS or Subversion (yes, Subversion!), issue trackers and much more for any number of teams and projects."
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GForge 4.0 Released

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  • Useful Only Once? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Rie Beam ( 632299 ) on Sunday October 24, 2004 @11:06PM (#10618066) Journal
    Sometimes, I think some things really don't need to have a large public offering such as this. Don't get me wrong - I think it's great that someone is doing this. I just think that, really now, who, other than huge developers who most likely have something similar to this, is really going to use this?

    "Yes! My own SourceForge! Add Project! Please Wait For Authentication! I Approve...Myself!"

    • Useful for its parts (Score:3, Informative)

      by abulafia ( 7826 )
      You're right, to an extent. Few folks are actually going to deploy the reference release.

      I've used parts of prior releases, though - there are handy things there, and it saved me a hell of a lot of work.

      The conjunction of the features are terribly useful in many specialized settings, and not having to either ingregrate a bunch of different crap or rebuild it is great. I suspect this is how most people use it.

    • Re:Useful Only Once? (Score:5, Informative)

      by jaaron ( 551839 ) on Sunday October 24, 2004 @11:30PM (#10618167) Homepage
      I just think that, really now, who, other than huge developers who most likely have something similar to this, is really going to use this?

      We use it internally at my work as do many other companies from what I understand. It's great for handling internal customer requests and project tracking. In fact, if I had my way, GForge would be the core of our entire intranet.

      So yeah, most single developers may not set this up on their home network, but as soon as you have a team (even a small team), it's a really great tool.

      Check out this list [gforge.org] of GForge powered sites.

      • Re:Useful Only Once? (Score:5, Interesting)

        by Joff_NZ ( 309034 ) on Monday October 25, 2004 @01:59AM (#10618655) Homepage Journal
        I wish I had mod points right now, but instead, I'll add a 'me too'. We're currently running GForge internally - and although i'm the only developer, it helps me keep track of a number of projects, from documentation, to bug tracking to coding tasks. Plus it lets my manager easily see what kind of progress i'm making.

        We've been using subversion for revision control, so the CVS module was useless to us, but now that this is included, I think we'll be moving to GForge 4 pretty soon.

        The other thing, is that installing GForge is a snap. I tried to install SourceForge a couple of years ago, and it was a complete nightmare - everything was hardcoded and obfusticated - I guess so SF can sell support to people wanting to install their own one.

        GForge wins.
        • I have to add a friggin' vhost to install the thing. Now, granted, that is the Right Way to use GForge, but I just want to run a few small projects, and I'd much rather just plop it in at http://example.com/gforge, or even http://example.com/~gforge.
      • It sounds like you're really pleased with GForge. My company has looked at getting a SourceForge installation setup for our internal projects. While the response was gernally positive, SourceForge is an expensive product -- its price is per user and not this is a fairly large company where not even all the software people would necessarily use it. It also seemed like it was a PITA to get setup.

        Do you have any thoughts on how GForge compares to SourceForge? Mostly in terms of features and ease of use by

        • Re:Useful Only Once? (Score:3, Informative)

          by jaaron ( 551839 )
          I have not evaluated the new enterprise version of SourceForge, so it's hard for me to compare.

          Setting up GForge isn't a cakewalk, but it's not horrible either. If you're going to run it on Debian Linux, then it's very simple. Otherwise, you just have to follow the directions and give yourself a couple of hours. A lot of it depends on how many options are you going to use. Will you use Subversion? Mailing Lists? LDAP? Adding these components will increase the install time.

          Most all the developer

        • My company has looked at getting a SourceForge installation setup for our internal projects. While the response was gernally positive, SourceForge is an expensive product...

          Just throwing in my experience since we evaluated SF Enterprise.

          The facility I'm working at evaluated SourceForge Enterprise awhile ago (they wanted an arm and a leg per user) They also didn't seem that interested in letting us use an evaluation box. It was well beyond GForge (at that particular stage which was the early versions of 3)

  • I'd be really interested in SF if it would support SVN, since there are a bunch of IDE plugins for it already.
  • I may have mentioned it before, but I just started using trac [edgewall.com] as a sort of sourceforge sort of intranet thing. I was only really looking for a cgi gateway to subversion too. It's a bitch to install, but worth it.

    Get the latest straight out of version control and use it as tracd (even though it's marked as experimental). Way easier than running it through apache.

    Dave
  • Accept that it will be completely useless, due to being continuously slashdotted.

    Seriously, the great thing about SourceForge is not the tools they provide, but that they provide them free of charge to every project great and small, with enough bandwidth and storage space.
    • Now am I happy I am not writing my paper at this time...what a bad post that was. What I meant is:

      Except that it will be completely useless, due to being continuously slashdotted.

      Seriously, the great thing about SourceForge is not the tools they provide, but that they provide them free of charge to every project great and small, with enough bandwidth and storage space to support everything they host. /me goes back to bed
  • I just posted a news at sarovar.org [sarovar.org], about it. We will be moving to this version as soon as Debian also releases Sarge (i know, i know... :). In fact we have been thinking of this for a long time and was waiting and waiting for debian. And this new version came at a right time.

    btw, according to GForge [gforge.org] list, we are 9th biggest public GForge site.

    raj

  • The Savane [gna.org] project is another SourceForge-based product. It's what's currently powering Savannah [gnu.org], and it features MySQL compatiable, localization, and a simple setup and configuration system. Although it lacks some of GForge's featuers, most of the same functionality is there and Savane is, IMHO, easier to setup on systems when you can't use apt-get to install gforge. It's definately worth a look.

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