Hi
I started using Sourceforge in 2006, mainly to host my CVS repository. I didn’t use it to host my website the very first years, I used multimania/lycos and tuxfamily. I currently use its bug tracker, my website is on it too, my Subversion repository too.
ublock blocks Sourceforge by default, I find this decision quite reasonable even though it’s unfair in my particular case as my bundles aren’t modified (yet) by Sourceforge. I know what happened to Gimp… I’d like to find a lasting solution. What are the other options?
I pay for my blog, it’s ok for me, I don’t expect anybody to work for me for free. If Sourceforge suggested me to pay 4 US dollars a month to host my project with no ad and no malware, I would accept.
Github is quite solid but there is still a corporation behind it (GitHub, Inc.), it can still modify its policy later, it’s true for Bitbucket too.
There are two viable solutions on the long term in my humble opinion:
- find an hosting solution managed by an organization in which I would have some “power”, an association, a cooperative
- self-hosting
The first solution doesn’t give me the full control of the hosting but it is less painful to migrate to. However, the only cooperative I know doesn’t provide a bug tracker, GIT, Subversion, …
https://ouvaton.coop/
The second solution would potentially give me much more control but maybe I would have to spend a lot of time to setup a server. Yunohost is installed by default on the Internet brick but it uses Nginx whereas I prefer Apache HTTP Server and it provides only Wifi, no Ethernet.
Is there anything obvious that I’m forgetting?
There are numerous open source code hosting facilities.
ourproject is managed by a non profit organization but it’s extremely slow…