Anonymous sourceforge CVS doesn't work?
I’m a big fan of SourceForge as it makes collaborative development for open source projects work. It may not have the best bug tracker, forum software etc, but considering the scale of the site, I am awed by their efforts.
The only real problem I have with SourceForge it the anonymous CVS. Apparently it rarely works (as a committer you get SSH access, which almost always works), considering the number of complaints on our mailinglists. This has raised the question of whether we should stay at SourceForge or move to another open source portal.
I rarely see support tickets on the SourceForge support trackers regarding anonymous CVS. Is the Sourceforge support staff even aware that there is a problem?
January 22nd, 2006 at 3:12 pm
We’d be happy to assist you in moving to JavaForge.com, of course that will require moving to Subversion (CVS is likely to come soon). Signup, create a project and see how you like it. We can find ways to make sure your history is imported I believe. We also allow anonymous read access to your subversion repository.
January 22nd, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Hi Matthew, thanks for the offer. Maybe we’ll take you up on your offer.
The only thing is, we like the current sf.net support, so we would only make use of your SVN availability. Our only problem is the anonymous CVS support.
January 22nd, 2006 at 4:56 pm
I’m a core member of dotProject and we ran into a similar thing quite a while ago, so we made a task that takes a nightly snapshot and then just makes that available.