[fab] Project Hosting

[Greg DeKoenigsberg]

On Sun, 7 May 2006, Josh Boyer wrote:

> The current options are:
> 
> 1) Savannah
> 2) Sourceforge
> 3) GForge
> 4) Roll-your-own
> 
> 1, 2, and 3 all offer pretty much the same things in various flavors.
> CVS/SVN, mailing lists, "trackers", etc.  I happen to have used them all
> too.  The largest issue here is whether to just use the existing sf.net/
> savannah.{non-}gnu.org/gforge.org sites, or to do installations of them
> ourselves.
> 
> I know a coupl people that have done administration for large
> Sourceforge and GForge installations.  I'll ask around and get their
> opinions on some of the issues in dealing with them.
> 
> Roll-your-own has obvious startup/development overhead in addition to
> some of the admin issues that the others bring.
> 
> Is that a sufficient summary, or have I missed something?

It's probably worth mentioning the general bias against PHP, which 
would seem to take GForge right out of the running.

--g

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