The download/release management system is horribly complex/convoluted. The project approval time is long. The code for SourceForge is not open source: despite being GPL, there have been modifications made to it which are not publicly available. The environment is not particularly developer friendly: it's hard to use, tends to be slow, and sourceforge itself is run, so far as I can tell, as a commercial business, which means you suffer under things like ads on your mailing lists. Oh, and if you want mailing lists, the sourceforge archives are practically unusable due to both speed and have a serious lack of google-fu compared to standard mailman archives because of all the extra crap in the page.
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Date: 2007-08-23 07:21 pm (UTC)The project approval time is long.
The code for SourceForge is not open source: despite being GPL, there have been modifications made to it which are not publicly available.
The environment is not particularly developer friendly: it's hard to use, tends to be slow, and sourceforge itself is run, so far as I can tell, as a commercial business, which means you suffer under things like ads on your mailing lists.
Oh, and if you want mailing lists, the sourceforge archives are practically unusable due to both speed and have a serious lack of google-fu compared to standard mailman archives because of all the extra crap in the page.