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...to manage its projects - right here.

Seems like GForge is all over the place... here is a list of some known sites, and of course - shameless plug - RubyForge.

> Let's say that we want to add a request
> to our application from the web.

You can do that using SOAP. Set up a SOAP service using NuSOAP that exports whatever operations you want, then use a Java Swing client that uses Axis to talk to the server. Or you can just use a Ruby command line script on the client. You can use complex types, faults, whatever.

We do this on GForge; it's not a problem.

Have a look at GForge. Here is the blurb from their page:

"GForge is an Open Source collaborative software development tool, which allows you to organize and manage any number of software development projects. It's perfect for managing large teams of software engineers and/or engineers scattered among multiple locations."

Have you thought about implementing your own copy of Sourceforge or (the much easier-to-install version) GForge ??

Our company uses GForge and create projects based on support (internal, customer and such) and then assign and track through gforge. It also handles internal projects (coding/documents) also, its handy.

It's yet another GForge installation.

...can be found here.

Yet another GForge installation!

Ditto for the PMD Java unused code finder. And also GForge, which is indirectly supported by DARPA since DARPA runs CougaarForge.

The OSX theme comes with GForge. RubyForge could just as easily look like this or this. Just a configuration option...

Good idea, I've entered a feature request on the GForge core project here.

Thanks,

Tom

> truncates my pure-ftpd options

I've had that same problem with xinetd as well (truncating cvspserver options); a workaround is to make a /usr/bin/mycvspserver.sh in the xinetd configuration file and then put everything you need in there. A bit klunky, but it works.

Here's the cvspserver example - FAQ 14 in the admin section.

Yup, Jabber's good stuff. It's built into GForge as another way of notifying people about events... pretty cool stuff...

Yours,

tom

SourceForge is a Very Bad Idea (tm) at this point.

The only source code that is available is almost two years old, and the SourceForge.net people have intentionally killed further outside development of the official SourceForge project.

The current version of SourceForge is *not* available as source, at least, not without paying big bucks. In other words, it's no longer open source. Of course, SourceForge.net will squirm and twist things like there's no tomorrow to get away with not admitting that they closed SourceForge.

Additionally, the version of SourceForge that is available is unbelievably difficult to set up, doesn't run very well, and is very SourceForge.net specific. It's set up to run on PostgreSQL, and yet all the documentation (what (very) little there is) talks about MySQL.

If you want something like SourceForge, only more oriented towards a smaller, more private, organization, you should investigate GForge. GForge is a much reworked fork of SourceForge. The fork was started by Tim Purdue, one of the original, and primary, authors of SourceForge, and is now being actively developed by the community.

GForge has also had it's goals and orientation changed slightly from SourceForge's. SourceForge was designed to work as a huge farm, managing hundreds of thousands of users and programs. A huge portion of it's functionality is superfluous and overly complicated. GForge is a simplified and better organized application designed specifically for use by smaller groups and companies for their own projects.

Personally, for what it sounds like the original poster is looking for, I'd recommend GForge coupled with a good Wiki. That should cover almost everything he needs.

Check out GForge. Wiki's are also a cool tool.

We're using Postgres for GForge - this GForge installation has a 216 MB database. Not very big yet, but running smooth and serving up plenty of hits so far....

Yours,

Tom

Over on GForge we're starting to "interoperate" a fair bit - we've got a Java SOAP client up and running (screenshot) and it's been quite helpful in cleaning up some of the PHP code. Fun stuff!

Yours,

Tom

....using Maven's xdocs, you can generate both HTML and PDF docs from the same XML source file.

We use this on GForge and it works pretty well....

Tom

As I understand it, they're having a hard time selling the SF code, and to add insult to injury at least one of the original developers also have a Free competitor up.

Gforge is an opensource fork of Sourceforge (What irony?). You can buy support for it too.

Gforge is an opensource fork of Sourceforge (What irony?). You can buy support for it too.

Hmm.... I don't question your experience... but I've found that if a server app is written using classes and such it's much easier to go back and plug in a SOAP wrapper to the "business objects".

For example, GForge has a bunch of classes that we've wrapped via SOAP, so now a Java client can do something like:

Client c = new Client("my.gforge.host", "myproject");
client.login("tom,"fiddlesticks");
Bug[] bugs = client.getOpenBugs();

Fun stuff!

Yours,

Tom

Got suggestions? Head on over to GForge and send 'em in... also, what do you think of the GForge default theme?

Yours,

Tom

Right on. It also lets you bolt on an XML-RPC or SOAP interface later on, which is what we've done with GForge.

Tom

try here? ... ok, so it's on Postgres, not MySQL, but hey :)

Not really an IDE, but GForge (the opensource fork of SourceForge), which certainly is a collaborative development system, had some discussion about add Jabber support. I'm not sure what the nature of the support is, but it appears there must be some as they have a link to jabber on their main page.