Alternatives to sourceforge

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matthijs
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Alternatives to sourceforge

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So what do you guys use for your repositories? Is everybody using sourceforge? Googlecode? Your own repository?

The reason I ask is because in my opinion sourceforge is unworkable. It's so incredible slow. Not always but very often. FTP-ing something takes hours. Checking out some code, well, is like giving the command, making coffee, have lunch, come back and maybe it's finished.
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Chris Corbyn
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SourceForge is losing its appeal for me. It's overly complicated to do everything and it's just really inconsistent (it's like a patchwork of different tools forced to work with each other).

Googlecode is where I started my most recent project. I used Google when it first started but didn't like it (too simple). Now it's improved heaps and the simplicity is what makes it great. Unfortunately they don't offer any web space to host a site and the URL they give you is pretty crappy (googlecode.com/p/projectname) even if they do offer a 301 redirect from projectname.googlecode.com.

I tried Berlios years back and though it was even more complicated than SourceForge.

If all you want is subversion access there's a service we're just trying out at work. I can't remember what it's called and google isn't showing it for my keyword search but I'll ask tomorrow.

Right now my pick of the bunch is Google. It's pretty snappy, the wiki is great, the Source browser is awesome, you can link in a google groups account and making releases is a piece of cake (WTF are SF.net doing with their release upload process???).

EDIT | One downside to Google is that it doesn't provide any donation service but I guess most open source projects aren't looking for donations explicitly and you can always implement it yourself ;)

EDIT 2 | Sourceforge's "project statistics" beat google too. Although I think you may be able to link a google stats account to your project.
matthijs
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Ok, cool thanks for your input. I'll take a serious look at google code.
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Re: Alternatives to sourceforge

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I hate sourceforge too :)
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