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Debian's Own SourceForge

Posted by timothy on from the join-us-now-and-free-the-software dept.

rescdsk writes "Raphael Hertzog recently announced Alioth, a SourceForge installation dedicated for Debian use. All developers automatically have accounts, though anyone may get an account. Quoting the front page, the purpose of Alioth is multiple: to provide facilities to free software projects supported by Debian developers, to make it easier for non-Debian developers to contribute to projects initiated by Debian, and to support projects whose goal is to promote Debian or one of its derivatives. Go peer with great wonder!"

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  1. Re:Cool! by hetta · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What sourceforge needs is a way to, umm, _abandon_ abandoned projects. Dunno what I was looking for there, but among the tens of programs their search engine dug up, only one or two actually had any "meat". The rest were just project statements, with links to years-gone maintainer webpages.

    In addition sourceforge is too big for its search engine. Nine times out of ten the reply to any search is: "we're busy right now, try again later".

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  2. Re:I think this is bad by cjwatson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you didn't care about the existence of cvs.debian.org for the last whatever number of years, then you won't need to care about Alioth. This is really just replacing all the manual setup and administrative tedium that went with cvs.debian.org. (Actually, I don't understand why it's being reported on /. in the first place, but anyway.)