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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. Good to see by jazir1979 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's nice to see a seperate sourceforge installation for this. Sourceforge is so huge that perhaps it would be beneficial to split parts of it up into other seperate installations?

    Does anybody know if there are other sourceforge installations that dedicate themselves to some specific "sub-genre"?

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  2. Will the standardization effort... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...be helped by this?
    Understood, user choice certainly improves, but the benefits of a variety of different platforms are lost on the newbie.
    The real benefactor of fragmentation in the Open Source community is Redmond...

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  3. This is good news! by peerogue · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's good to see that Raphael Hertzog explicitly mentions that Alioth will be reserved to Debian-specific artefacts. At first, I feared that it would be an alternate repository of all the deliverables, including the Debian-packaged distributions. Now that would have been a terrible mistake (duplication, maintenance nightmare, ease of code forking, etc...).

    I think it's a good idea to have it separated from Sourceforge. Although it will require dedicated hardware, maintenance, the Sourceforge site is not meant to host distribution-specific bits. At least it's my understanding.

    I don't know why most of the comments posted so far are so negative about it. Congratulations to Raphael Hertzog for setting this up. I'm sure it required lots of hours of hard work and discussions.

  4. Sourceforge? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I have to admit, whenever I see a project listed on Sourceforge I am hesitant. The interface to SF is pretty bad.

    I would think that the concept could be re-implemented with a decent default layout.

    Just my $0.02.

  5. I think this is bad by Chatterton · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am a debian user, and I think this is bad. Sourceforge is my principal source of informations when I search for a project that do what I need to do. Now if I need to go to sourceforge, then Savannah, then Alioth, then myownproject.org, then myownprojecttoo.net... Well in this case I think a bunch of project could pass under the radar and will be never seen by others :-(. Sourceforge was good because there is a single point where to search against (Sorry but I never go to savannah :-/). Now If I need to go everywhere to find something, Google will be my friend, bur Google is not the panacea too. This will have the side effect that Sourceforge, Savannah, Alioth, and others will be parcelated and unuseable like all the webrings you can find and cannot use because you don't know them except if you are in it or know someone in it :-(.