[fab] Project Hosting

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Mon May 8 14:44:38 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 10:37 -0400, Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
> 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.
> 

It's also probably fair to mention that the 'bias' against php is based
on lots and lots of experience de-bunging systems that were rooted or
otherwise broken b/c of incredibly poor php programming.

It's not like we all woke up one day and decided to hate php. It took a
lot of effort to generate this kind of hate. :)

-sv





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