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New Apache Allura Project For Project Development Hosting

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-and-shiny dept.

New submitter brondsem writes: "Today the Apache Software Foundation announced the Allura project for hosting software development projects. Think GitHub or SourceForge on your own servers — Allura has git, svn, hg, wiki, tickets, forums, news, etc. It's written in python and has a modular and extensible platform so you can write your own tools and extensions. It's already used by SourceForge, DARPA, German Aerospace Center, and Open Source Projects Europe. Allura is open source; available under the Apache License v2.0. When you don't want all your project resources in the cloud on somebody else's walled garden, you can run Allura on your own servers and have full control and full data access." (SourceForge shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot).

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  1. Apache Allura by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    Apache Allura
    Hot as Uhura
    Whose legs a fine sheen
    Good soap will assure-a
    Burma Shave

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
    1. Re:Apache Allura by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2

      Well, I had to work in a shaving connection in a tight, tight space. While keeping everything family friendly.

      --
      Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. GitLab Already Exists by terbeaux · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is pretty nice too: https://www.gitlab.com/

    1. Re:GitLab Already Exists by gbjbaanb · · Score: 2

      or Redmine which is the 'de-facto' project management portal application and completely free - not borked by some paid-for 'upgrade' tiers.

    2. Re:GitLab Already Exists by Raumkraut · · Score: 2

      I like Redmine, I do, but it has no support for actually being a source control server. On its own, browsing local repositories is all you get.

  3. Re:This is very bad for OSS by lucm · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who want to store their own projects on their own servers instead of having Crapware bundled with their downloads on SourceForge or who don't like the tedious process of publishing on Github can use this thing and SEO or twitter their way to the mainstream search engines - or maybe they just want to use it internally and don't care about people knowing about their stuff.

    As for a federated register, if we look at the existing models (Wikipedia, Apple App Store, Google Play Store) then THAT is the end of OSS. When a small clique decides what is acceptable and what is not then the outcome looks good but that's just because the people or projects that are crushed are lost in the background noise.

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    lucm, indeed.