Re: Why such little interest?

[perrin]

I suspect most people don't see much value in the SourceForge software. I mean, all of the important stuff is just stock open source software. The real value is that they host it and I don't have to set it up. If I really needed an in-house system, I would install CVS, create a mailing list on the company mail server, and install that Perl script for browsing CVS. Seems pretty straightforward to me, and doesn't require a new development project.

[lachoy]

By far, the best CVS viewer I've found is the ViewCVS Python CGI script. It's dead simple to setup and everything works like you'd expect. Since CVS viewing is fairly orthogonal to other project management activities, the fact that it uses a different technology (albeit one accessible by constructing GET requests) has never been a problem for me.

Chris
M-x auto-bs-mode

[shahzbot]

I installed SF internally on a client site, and the developers are going ape over it. They love the community building aspects (ratings/code snippets) and were already needing some sort of project management/bug tracking system. SF beats Bugzilla hands down, in my opinion.

I think SF does add value by tying all those disparate software packages together into a simple user interface. I want to do the same things, only better and more easily.

And I want other organizations to be able to host internet-based development just like SF.net does. See savannah.gnu.org, who took SF's source and modified it painstakingly because they needed similar functionality. It shouldn't be so hard!

jpt

[perrin]

Well, it just sounds like you're in the minority. There are lots of great bug tracking tools out there like RT, and I think Bugzilla is fine although of course you have to customize it for your organization. I'd rather see effort go into imporving those tools than writing new ones.