[TYPO3-dev] The neverending sf story

[Dimitri Tarassenko]

Sven,

On 3/11/06, Sven Wilhelm <wilhelm at icecrash.com> wrote:

> open question and more target to be answered by the assoc guys.
>
> Is SF the right place to serve TYPO3?

Yes.

> It seems that SF has continuous problems providing his services. CVS has
> problems at the moment, upload wasn't possible for Stucki till
> yesterday.
>
> There are other places outside providing an equal plattform like SF.
>
> BerliOS - http://www.berlios.de/
> Savannah - http://savannah.nongnu.org/
> Novell Forge - http://forge.novell.com/

All of the above combined are about five times smaller in number of
projects and developers who already have accounts than SF. With all of
them being free, there has to be a reason why people choose SF.

TYPO3 does not use SF almost at all. Bugtacker is separate, file
release system is used only for the core (compare to jEdit using FRS
to distribute their plugins).

So, in terms of switching - yeah, it's easy to move elsewhere because
all that needs to be moved is the CVS tree. I really doubt any of
these three would have better availability than SF. It would be a
trade of _hopes_ of better availability for smaller number of people
who have developer accounts in the system.

What really would be an improvement is something like Trac
http://www.edgewall.com/trac/ - something that had more project
management, matching bugs to CVS/SVN commits, documentation - even if
that would mean a commercial platform.

> At least it doesn't make sense in a testing phase to have the service
> down.

Hmmm... Where did I hear this one? ;)

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Dimitri Tarassenko