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GForge 4.0 Released
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."
Revision control via CVS, Subversion, or Clearcase!
Yes, that godforsaken piece of crap administrator's nightmare. That one is supported too.
I'm exaggerating a little, but not much. It's a love/hate relationship with that software.
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!"
I am a GForge user, and I'm actually quite impressed with it. We have roughly 3,000 users, hosting about 50 projects. These users are in multiple countries all over the world, and this software allows us to collaborate seemlessly, as if they were in the cubical nextdoor; and its also great to control from a project manager's point of view. Case in point, one of our projects has developers in Japan, Canada, and the US, and the project manager is in Japan. Using previous systems, a project of that size would take maybe years to get as far as it has... using GForge, its taken us a mere month.
Unfortunately, since it is for internal usage only, I cannot say who I am, or who I work for. Lets just say we are one of the top video game manufacturers.
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.
I forget what 8 was for.
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 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
I write a blog now, you should be afraid.
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.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
btw, according to GForge list, we are 9th biggest public GForge site.
raj
Sarovar.org Hosting for open source projects in Indi
Umm GForge is a fork of the old source forge code, they haven't touched CVS or subversion.
GForge is a project management system. The reason it was forked was because VA took the Source Forge code base closed source in order to try and make a buck.
Sourceforge took their code closed source so there was no choice but to fork the code otherwise no open development could take place.
If you want use the offical sourceforge code then you must pay for it, otherwise you use GForge. Don't confuse the Sourceforge site with the Sourceforge code. Gforge is used to create your own version of the sourceforge site.
The Savane project is another SourceForge-based product. It's what's currently powering Savannah, 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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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) in terms of features. In fact one of the things we really liked was that it could search the contents of proprietary documents such as MSWord (more of a function of their Oracle backend rather than SF itself we think). From what we did get to use though, the administration and regular usage was very polished and easy to use.
We eventually went with GForge and avoided all of the setup by just buying the Bugopolis Project Station (GForge.org hadn't offered their suite of commercial support yet). It's served us fairly well (they've been extremely slow getting us updates, we're still at 3.21 I think), but though it looks like we're going to move to the GForge Group for commercial support.
Some of our developers have jumped right in and love it. Most of the older developers have resisted it (heck, it's like pulling teeth just to get them to use CVS and stop pigeon-holing verions of code around various systems (though, they also may not be using it because we haven't pushed it that hard, we're still in the beginning stages of updating policies)) but I think when we move to GForge 4 we'll start developing policies around it and pushing it harder and they'll come around.
An addition note: the SF guys made a bunch of follow-up calls and eventually found out that we went to GForge they were much more willing to get us an evaluation box and try and explore other pricing options with us... We'll be sticking with GForge though, version 4 is pretty much comparable with what we saw in SF Enterprise (or so it sounds from the release notes, haven't actually played with 4 yet).
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
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.
The goal of Scmbug was to provide generic integration of SCM with bug-tracking. And get GForge went ahead and implemented their own solution.
Why can't we all just get along.
I, for one, would like to know if Savane supports Gantt charts or something similar, like GForge does. Or, perhaps, is there some more modular way to integrate this functionality into a Savane site?
Also, I must say that while savannah.gnu.org is visually okay I suppose, gforge.org looks a lot cleaner and clearer. I wonder if there is some important difference in the page layouts that gforge and savane generate.
Finally, are there other forks besides these three (GForce, Savane and proprietary SourceForge)? I thought that there had been a fork between Savannah and Savane also.