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SourceForge's Hottest Five Apps

Posted by kdawson on from the top-of-the-heap dept.

davidmwilliams points us to his story up on IT Wire about the top five most active open source projects on SourceForge. (Sourceforge.net and Slashdot are both owned by SourceForge Inc.) He writes, "It explains what they do and why they're useful. Most of these will be new to most people but all are definitely bursting with potential."

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  1. Well this is stupid by The+Real+Toad+King · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All they did was take the most active projects this week and commented on them.

    What was the point in this?

  2. Stellarium by ajs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Stellarium is right up there with Celestia for outstanding astro simulations. I use the two together when planning a night of stargazing or meteor watching in the mountains, and highly recommend them to anyone. Both have somewhat odd UIs to get used to, but it's one of the rare cases where the app itself is so uniquely useful that the UI is a secondary concern.

  3. SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported by curmudgeon99 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    SourceForge is too big now. If you start a project and have a support request--good luck getting it answered. Having fought with their CVS implementation for a few weeks, I abandoned sourceforge for GoogleCode. Much easier.

    1. Re:SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny
      As an example, search for "calendar". 2 of the first 3 returned have no code, and no website.

      Yes, we refer to those as "Outlook killers".

      Stellarium, by the way, is a superb piece of software and it's good to see it get attention even via a route as clueless as this article.

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    2. Re:SourceForge Too Big And Now Not Supported by _xeno_ · · Score: 5, Informative

      The problem is you can't cancel projects. I know I've got a few projects on SourceForge that I never intend to do anything with. One of them even has some code.

      In any case, I've long since lost both the password for that SourceForge account and no longer have access to the email address I used to create it, so those projects will remain forever, clogging up SourceForge despite the fact that they're long dead.

      I don't think SourceForge should just delete dead projects, but it would be nice if they'd move them into a "SourceForge Archive" or something after a project fails to see any activity or downloads for, say, a year. Leave them accessible, but stop returning them in searches unless a "search archives" option is set.

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  4. Go Azureus! by mattgreen · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let me tell you, I've always wanted a Java P2P client. My biggest irk with uTorrent is it doesn't take up enough resources. Honestly, I can't believe the developers of uTorrent had the nerve to not put an entire plug-in architecture into it. They're totally missing the boat here.

    Besides, everyone KNOWS that the more design patterns you use, the better your program is!

  5. Re:Don't worry by deanoaz · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bad thing is, I'm only 97 percent sure that was written by some kind of randomizing post creating software. There are enough really weird people around that I have to consider the possibility that all of that made sense to somebody.

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