SourceForge Debuts New UI and GitHub Sync Tool (sourceforge.net)

Posted by msmash on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @04:00AM from the moving-forward dept.

SourceForge on Tuesday introduced an overhaul of its website to give it a new look and add new features. Among the most notable additions, the popular repository, which hosts over 430,000 projects and 3.7 million registered developers, said it was creating a GitHub Importer tool which would enable developers to import their GitHub project to SourceForge and also sync their GitHub project file releases on SourceForce so they "can take advantage of the strengths of both platforms." In a blog post, the team wrote:We believe the open source community is always better served when there are multiple options for open source projects to live, and these options are not mutually exclusive. More improvements and new features are on track to be released throughout the year, the team wrote.

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Re:But they so skeevy by whipslash · 2018-01-10 06:15 · Score: 4, Insightful

For non developers the interface is intuitive. Try telling a non-developer to download something from GitHub and SourceForge and see which one they find easier.
Re:Too little, too late by whipslash · 2018-01-10 06:23 · Score: 5, Insightful

Yeah that makes sense to be skeptical of the previous ownership's decisions but we had nothing to do with it. If a building is burning down and ruining the contents inside due to the owner's neglect, do you then fault the person who buys it and puts out the fire?