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Google V.S SourceForge.net

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 12:35 pm
by alex.barylski

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:04 pm
by Oren
That's cool 8)
I don't know why, but each time they release a new product/service two things happen:

1. I think to myself: "Damn, they won't stop".
2. I get excited even though I don't bother to check it out :P

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:12 pm
by pedrotuga
microsoft already created something similar...
in my opinion SF is getting delayed in a lot of points.... i think it's time for them to change to a more user friendly interface.

as for google service... dunno...

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:13 pm
by Chris Corbyn
Cool :) I think I'll see what it's like for something I have moving along slowly.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:22 pm
by Weirdan
IMHO not every product from google is awesome... mail, maps and search are just notable exceptions.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:24 pm
by Oren
Weirdan wrote:IMHO not every product from google is awesome...
I didn't say that. I just said that somehow, without a real reason, it makes me happy :D

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:23 pm
by RobertGonzalez
But you have to admit, Google does put out some good stuff. And sooner or later, they will own the world so we should all get in line now and start hailing the great being that is google. Image

PS In case it didn't sound right, this post is meant as a joke. Image

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:15 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
pedrotuga wrote:microsoft already created something similar...
in my opinion SF is getting delayed in a lot of points.... i think it's time for them to change to a more user friendly interface.

as for google service... dunno...
It's not really the SF interface that is the problem. It's their server farm. It is severely overloaded. It can take forever for a page to load even with a high speed connection. Plus in some areas you get 500 errors where the server is unavailible. They fixed this problem for the web sites for each project but the main Sourceforge site is still doggy. And you know there are some load issues when the stats tracking goes down for weeks at a time or is behind for days.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:23 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
Now here is a silly thing...

Only people who have GMail accounts can create a new project on Google Code. If you don't have a GMail account you are screwed and locked out. Now how Open Source is that?

And the kicker is GMail is still classed as Beta so you have to have a friend who has GMail help you get one still.

They would have had far more projects sign up if it wasn't for this Microsoftian Membership requirement.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:31 pm
by Benjamin
PM Me for invites

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:32 pm
by neophyte
I listened to a webinar not to long ago about Open Source. The lead server/production guy from SF was on it as the first speaker. He was describing their server fiasco. Judging by what he said it sounds like they are buisy putting together a plan for a rebuild. Can't remember what site hosted the webinar.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:15 pm
by RobertGonzalez
AKA Panama Jack wrote:Only people who have GMail accounts can create a new project on Google Code. If you don't have a GMail account you are screwed and locked out. Now how Open Source is that?
This is there way of asking you to have an accout with them. Right now their turnaround time to offer you accounts based on your request is about two days. You can get a gmail account without an invite, I think, if oyu ask them for one.

Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 9:34 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
The thing is I don't really want one and don't need one. I have one free email account that I have been using for years and years with 30 meg of storage and I never go over 1% usage.

Anyway it looks like they are going to mainly be publishing Open Source applications that work with any of the Google sites and not really general applications from the way everything reads. In other words it's not going to be an alternative to sites like Sourceforge.

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 11:53 am
by daedalus__
I have 400+ invites if anyone needs one. ^^

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:24 pm
by bg
AKA Panama Jack wrote:Anyway it looks like they are going to mainly be publishing Open Source applications that work with any of the Google sites and not really general applications from the way everything reads. In other words it's not going to be an alternative to sites like Sourceforge.
What exactly are you reading? You can put anything up on google code, as long as it is licensed under 1 of the 6 available licenses they have available to choose from (gpl 1, gpl 2, bsd, etc...). It's also a subversion repository which I favor over cvs. Google has a lot of their own projects that have nothing to do with other google products. A few I've seen are a python framework, a template engine for C++, performance analyzing tools for c++ projects.. just to name a few.