New Apache Allura Project For Project Development Hosting 43
New submitter brondsem writes:
"Today the Apache Software Foundation announced the Allura project for hosting software development projects. Think GitHub or SourceForge on your own servers — Allura has git, svn, hg, wiki, tickets, forums, news, etc. It's written in python and has a modular and extensible platform so you can write your own tools and extensions. It's already used by SourceForge, DARPA, German Aerospace Center, and Open Source Projects Europe. Allura is open source; available under the Apache License v2.0. When you don't want all your project resources in the cloud on somebody else's walled garden, you can run Allura on your own servers and have full control and full data access."
(SourceForge shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot).
Apache Allura (Score:5, Funny)
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You had my attention at "Uhura".
The "legs a fine sheen" are simply cruel to mention...
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I am no longer "family friendly" thinkin' bout that ladies legs!
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Those thoughts are how families get made.
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SourceForge did not in the past cause you to download advertisements with your software. I understand that's current practice. (If I'm wrong, please advise.)
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Those links are posted by the Praetorians and hide a secret portal leading to a mysterious backdoor. Thanks to CyberBob, I know how it works: hold the left shift key on your keyboard then click directly in the middle of the top loop of the "8". If you do it correctly, you will get to the backdoor and it will be wide open.
Be careful.
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Self hosted, cool... (Score:1)
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You're not thinking big enough because if you were, you'd realize that in the bigger scheme of things, applications like this will allow people to have their own GitHubs / SourceForges. Just imagine that...At first, it might be counter-intuitive, but in the long run, it will only add to it at exponential levels.
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It's worth noting that this is [wikipedia.org] already possible [github.com] today. [bitnami.com]
The only question is whether Allura will be game-changingly good at what it sets out to do.
(Also, I agree that this is a Good Thing overall. What we see today is a GitHub monoculture [indiewebcamp.com].)
Nonsense (Score:2)
This makes no sense. If you want to search for code, the obvious way to do it today is use Google or some other search engine. Tomorrow, the obvious way to do it... will be to use Google or some other search engine. You don't need a "federated search", you just need a good search engine. There are a number of code-specific search engines that already work today too, again, there's no need for one system to rule them all.
I think there's great advantage in having an OSS management system for managing O
Re:This is very bad for OSS (Score:5, Insightful)
People who want to store their own projects on their own servers instead of having Crapware bundled with their downloads on SourceForge or who don't like the tedious process of publishing on Github can use this thing and SEO or twitter their way to the mainstream search engines - or maybe they just want to use it internally and don't care about people knowing about their stuff.
As for a federated register, if we look at the existing models (Wikipedia, Apple App Store, Google Play Store) then THAT is the end of OSS. When a small clique decides what is acceptable and what is not then the outcome looks good but that's just because the people or projects that are crushed are lost in the background noise.
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You mean you want a centralized registry? You mean like Freshmeat (aka Freecode)?
Nobody uses SourceForge for new projects anymore because it became too commercialized and the interfaces became cluttered and a pain to use. I have no doubt that the same thing will happen to GitHub, eventually.
If you want OSS to thrive, you want people eat their own dog food. They need to run their own servers, host their own projects, and in general stop being pansies too afraid to run a web server. A VPS is like $15/month th
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Nobody uses SourceForge for new projects anymore because it became too commercialized and the interfaces became cluttered and a pain to use. I have no doubt that the same thing will happen to GitHub, eventually.
I'm not sure it will. SourceForge had a confusing business model that included selling ads and bundling crapware. GitHub's model is quite simple: they sell project hosting. The open-source-hosting GitHub site is just an advert. Their business model relies on people using their free product, becoming familiar with it, and advocating it within their organisations. If they start doing the same sorts of things to their UI that SourceForge did then their revenue stream dries up.
A VPS is like $15/month these days.
There are also quite a few OS
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I doubt anyone will appear as a github/sourceforge competitor using this. What they will use it for, and should be encouraged, is to host their own projects internally as a competitor to crap like sharepoint. Local dev teams in companies that need to manage their own software need this kind of thing (or one of the many competitor projects)
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This is exactly what I was thinking. I see the potential here because if devs/engineers at a company pick this then they will more than likely push back any fixes/enhancements to the project.
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blablbablblablbalbla.
this does nothing for that.. this is just gitlab(self hosted free github like) competitor.
codeplex etc holes do what you mention.
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For now I'll stick with my private gitlab server, thanks.
GitLab Already Exists (Score:5, Informative)
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Or you could try Atlassian Stash: ...
https://www.atlassian.com/soft... [atlassian.com]
Or, like me, you see the term "Apache Software" and get drunk on the beer.
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or Redmine [redmine.org] which is the 'de-facto' project management portal application and completely free - not borked by some paid-for 'upgrade' tiers.
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I like Redmine, I do, but it has no support for actually being a source control server. On its own, browsing local repositories is all you get.
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nor do any of these, they're all management front ends for other SCMs like git or SVN.
Time for some VM infrastructure (Score:2)
Just happened to post this on G+ this morning:
I was just looking at a web project an ho
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