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GForge 4.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the connecting-pieces dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Useful Only Once? by jaaron · · Score: 4, Informative

    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?

    We use it internally at my work as do many other companies from what I understand. It's great for handling internal customer requests and project tracking. In fact, if I had my way, GForge would be the core of our entire intranet.

    So yeah, most single developers may not set this up on their home network, but as soon as you have a team (even a small team), it's a really great tool.

    Check out this list of GForge powered sites.

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  2. Re:Useful Only Once? by Joff_NZ · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

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  3. Re:Do we need it? by cranos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.