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."

Comments

Corperate GForge User

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Useful Only Once?

[Joff_NZ]

I wish I had mod points right now, but instead, I'll add a 'me too'. We're currently running GForge internally - and although i'm the only developer, it helps me keep track of a number of projects, from documentation, to bug tracking to coding tasks. Plus it lets my manager easily see what kind of progress i'm making.

We've been using subversion for revision control, so the CVS module was useless to us, but now that this is included, I think we'll be moving to GForge 4 pretty soon.

The other thing, is that installing GForge is a snap. I tried to install SourceForge a couple of years ago, and it was a complete nightmare - everything was hardcoded and obfusticated - I guess so SF can sell support to people wanting to install their own one.

GForge wins.