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Contents 1 Sourceforge.net launch 2 Can someone explain this? 3 List of Projects hosted on SourceForge 4 SourceForge dead? 5 Project activity 6 TfD nomination of Template:Sourceforgeproject 7 Infobox 8 Why was it banned in China? 9 Split 10 Move proposal

[edit] Sourceforge.net launch

Hi, browsing wikipedia, I noticed the launch year of Sourceforge.net is a ? in the article. http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php?article_id=3649 (a republished linux.com article) mentions Coldstorage.org, which became Sourceforge.net and was referred back to by a blog posting about the launch of Sourceforge.net, which would date the launch to late 1999. I hope this helps. 128.214.9.63 14:50, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Can someone explain this?

I've cut this out, can anyone explain what the significant changes where?

A controversy erupted amongst open-source developers in February 2002 when VA significantly modified the terms and conditions of use. A number of developers unsubscribed and moved their projects to other sites such as the GNU Savannah site. Many, however, felt unable to move because of their dependence upon certain features in SourceForge (notably the compile farm).

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Alex (talk • contribs) 08:08, 6 August 2002

According to Savannah, "The GForge project is a continuation of the SourceForge project, which was close-sourced by VA Linux in 2001."[1]

GForge itself (and Savane too) should probably have their own pages on Wikipedia, as I think the GForge name is used for both the proprietary and the Free versions. Interestingly, the only reference I can find to it on Wikipedia is at project management software, which lists gforge.org as proprietary. Ojw 18:41, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of Projects hosted on SourceForge

How about this sort of a list. Might be kind of interesting. Or does this sort of list in fact already exist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hexii (talk • contribs) 17:03, 2 August 2004

Current statistics from SourceForge:

• Registered Projects: 100,955
• Registered Users: 1,083,958

I believe this list would be too large to be practical. There are also literally more than 100 clones of Tetris alone. SourceForge front page does give lists of most active and most downloaded projects but these vary over time.85.164.107.7 17:52, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

According to Google, we have about 372 wikipedia pages about sourceforge projects -- I was just thinking of a category for them, and came here to see if someone had already tried.

Of course, each of those programs will be in about 20 categories already: free software, windows software, mac software, web browsers, programs released in 1996, etc... Ojw 18:31, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] SourceForge dead?

Is anyone else getting only a banner ad when going to sf.net? I am using Firefox 1.0.6 on Windows XP SP2. --pile0nades^{talk | contribs} 08:16, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Looks like invalid HTML rather than a dead website. W3C [2] lists hundreds of errors with the page, though it's just started working again, so maybe there was a particular banner ad which broke it... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ojw (talk • contribs) 18:48, 2 September 2005

[edit] Project activity

What does the SourceForge "project activity" (most of the time around 99.xx percent for many projects) mean? --Abdull 21:40, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] TfD nomination of Template:Sourceforgeproject

Template:Sourceforgeproject has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Kusma (討論) 13:45, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox

SourceForge
URL	http://www.sourceforge.net
Type of site	Software
Registration	Optional
Owner	Open Source Technology Group ? Va software?

[edit] Why was it banned in China?

Everything is in the title --SamiKaero 21:00, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Split

I've split this from SourceForge and moved the talk in here. Chris Cunningham 20:23, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Move proposal

I'm proposing redirecting SourceForge to SourceForge.net; see here for discussion and comments. Andareed (talk) 03:54, 29 April 2008 (UTC)