SourceForgetaboutit. Unless you're after an established project's content.
January 19, 2019
SourceForgetaboutit. Unless you're after an established project's content.
Score 5 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with SourceForge
Currently, we are not using SourceForge for our needs. We investigated a number of collaborative source code hosting solutions, and have opted against SourceForge for a number of reasons.
Pros
- A large library of impressive FOSS programs with long legacies.
- Excellent discussion/forum threads for the various repositories/projects.
- Integrated download metrics displayed next to content to help end-users see which release/files are most popular.
- End-User centric approach, easier to distribute and download content from.
- Reviews for the project/content on the project page. Brilliant!
Cons
- A brief period where abandoned projects were altered by SourceForge to have ad-ware bundled into installers.
- Lack of direct/easy integration with popular tools like VSCode.
- Development community seems to have shifted towards Git/Bitbucket for most big projects.
- No appreciable impact.
Once again I must circle back to the incident(s) in the past where SourceForge adulterated abandoned projects... I dislike that practice immensely.
I have selected against SourceForge in my usage for the stated reasons, and have moved on to GitHub, especially as private repositories are now free.
I have selected against SourceForge in my usage for the stated reasons, and have moved on to GitHub, especially as private repositories are now free.
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