Hosting projects in SourceForge
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I'm thinking of hosting one of my projects in SourceForge. Does anybody have any experience in this area? Is it worth it? Would it give my project more exposure than hosting it in CodeProject exclusively? If you have hosted a project in SourceForge, then which license did you choose and why?
The nice thing about C++ is that only your friends can handle your private parts.
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I'm thinking of hosting one of my projects in SourceForge. Does anybody have any experience in this area? Is it worth it? Would it give my project more exposure than hosting it in CodeProject exclusively? If you have hosted a project in SourceForge, then which license did you choose and why?
The nice thing about C++ is that only your friends can handle your private parts.
I have had three projects hosted at SF, one I stopped working on, and the other two are both active. I have been pretty happy with what SF gives you, particularly the CVS for version control, which I don't think CodeProject has (in fact I didn't know CodeProject actually hosted projects). The other thing that is nice are the built in bug tracker and task manager that you get with the project - I use them quite a bit to help manage things in a bit more organized manner. Licenses range from public domain, to BSD (which is what I use), to GPL, and a number of in between ones. Which one you choose is entirely up to you, but do read through the fine print - some of the licenses can have unintended (from your point of view) side effects, and have more to do with politics than with people using your software. My personal opinion on licenses is that I want as many people as possible to use the software I write. I have better things to do with my time than worry about who is going to "infringe" on my code or copy or whatever, thus for me it's simpler to use a BSD License - this basically says you can do whatever you want with the code, in both commercial and non-commercial projects, and giving credit would be nice as well. In terms of exposure I don't know - I have a nasty suspicion that linux projects tend to get more favorable ratings simply because they run on linux, but this may be entirely unfounded. Hope this helps :) ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!
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I'm thinking of hosting one of my projects in SourceForge. Does anybody have any experience in this area? Is it worth it? Would it give my project more exposure than hosting it in CodeProject exclusively? If you have hosted a project in SourceForge, then which license did you choose and why?
The nice thing about C++ is that only your friends can handle your private parts.
Eddie Velasquez wrote: I'm thinking of hosting one of my projects in SourceForge. Does anybody have any experience in this area? Is it worth it? Would it give my project more exposure than hosting it in CodeProject exclusively? If you have hosted a project in SourceForge, then which license did you choose and why? CodeProject is very good for articles and SourceForge is very good for projects. Use SF specially if it involves several programmers, or if you want to find some to help and you have an appealing project. They'll provide you with everything you need for a team project. You'll be able to setup several forums, bug tracking databases, project management, they'll give you lots of disk space and bandwidth, a public and a secured CVS server, and if you have success, even build and test environments. But you'll be lost in the middle of 300,000 projects and finding users and programmers is up to you. Of course, all of this is hard to setup. OTOH, CP will give you good tools for articles, traffic and readers (don't underestimate this), bandwidth, a small and simple forum, but the collaboration part is up to you. CP has limits on articles which make it difficult for one to publish articles with large files, e.g., games or real-world neural networks, or make a full-fledged "sub-site" with several linked articles, like you can do on SF.
It's not the fall that kills you: it's the sudden stop - Down by Law, Jim Jamursch (1986)
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Eddie Velasquez wrote: I'm thinking of hosting one of my projects in SourceForge. Does anybody have any experience in this area? Is it worth it? Would it give my project more exposure than hosting it in CodeProject exclusively? If you have hosted a project in SourceForge, then which license did you choose and why? CodeProject is very good for articles and SourceForge is very good for projects. Use SF specially if it involves several programmers, or if you want to find some to help and you have an appealing project. They'll provide you with everything you need for a team project. You'll be able to setup several forums, bug tracking databases, project management, they'll give you lots of disk space and bandwidth, a public and a secured CVS server, and if you have success, even build and test environments. But you'll be lost in the middle of 300,000 projects and finding users and programmers is up to you. Of course, all of this is hard to setup. OTOH, CP will give you good tools for articles, traffic and readers (don't underestimate this), bandwidth, a small and simple forum, but the collaboration part is up to you. CP has limits on articles which make it difficult for one to publish articles with large files, e.g., games or real-world neural networks, or make a full-fledged "sub-site" with several linked articles, like you can do on SF.
It's not the fall that kills you: it's the sudden stop - Down by Law, Jim Jamursch (1986)
Hello! I'm wondering... is CP planning on offering project support in the future? I have hosted projects on SF before with varying degrees of success, like you mentioned there are hundreds of thousands of projects so really getting exposure can be difficult. Once I mentioned to a co-worker that I was thinking of putting a project up on SF and his response was "how noble of you.", I'm just saying you'll want to be sure of your motivation before spending ooodles of hours setting up, recruiting for, and managing an open source project. IMHO you're doing a great job with the articles! :: ! spacey ::
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I'm thinking of hosting one of my projects in SourceForge. Does anybody have any experience in this area? Is it worth it? Would it give my project more exposure than hosting it in CodeProject exclusively? If you have hosted a project in SourceForge, then which license did you choose and why?
The nice thing about C++ is that only your friends can handle your private parts.
I'm in the middle of setting a SourceForge site for a project, and I think it's really cool, but I had a heck of a time figuring out how everything works. The information is spread all over the place. In fact, I'm eventually going to write an article for CP on the issue, because it's so complicated. If you want to see my notes so far, drop me an email. I looked at DotNet's project hosting, and it was awful. It requires you to agree to several annoying things--Microsoft owns any code you post, the hosting project is experimental and will be pulled after 1 year of hosting or a fixed date (which I can't remember), whichever comes first, etc.etc.etc. Ridiculous. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files" -
I'm in the middle of setting a SourceForge site for a project, and I think it's really cool, but I had a heck of a time figuring out how everything works. The information is spread all over the place. In fact, I'm eventually going to write an article for CP on the issue, because it's so complicated. If you want to see my notes so far, drop me an email. I looked at DotNet's project hosting, and it was awful. It requires you to agree to several annoying things--Microsoft owns any code you post, the hosting project is experimental and will be pulled after 1 year of hosting or a fixed date (which I can't remember), whichever comes first, etc.etc.etc. Ridiculous. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"Yeah the GotDotNet webspace stinks IMHO. It is a good concept though, just implemented badly. I am building (in my spare time) a FTP based online version control system for my own use. All you will need is some web space (that it .NET capable) and FTP address and a few web services to implement it. Nothing that requires you be bale to install anything on the server side so it would be good for shared hosting situations. Once it is done to the point where it is workable I will open it up for the world to use. I hope to have it done before Fall. It will also warp up some type of VS.NET integration, a version numbering scheme that is tightly integrated, and some work flow rules for creating spec documents, help files, and user documentation. BIG project for my spare time :)
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I'm in the middle of setting a SourceForge site for a project, and I think it's really cool, but I had a heck of a time figuring out how everything works. The information is spread all over the place. In fact, I'm eventually going to write an article for CP on the issue, because it's so complicated. If you want to see my notes so far, drop me an email. I looked at DotNet's project hosting, and it was awful. It requires you to agree to several annoying things--Microsoft owns any code you post, the hosting project is experimental and will be pulled after 1 year of hosting or a fixed date (which I can't remember), whichever comes first, etc.etc.etc. Ridiculous. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files"let me know if you would be interested in doing this article together - I have setup a number of projects on SF and feel pretty comfortable with how it works now. I'd be happy to ao-author it with you if you want. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)!