Re: SourceForge vs Savannah

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Stephen Leake wrote:

> chris <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> writes:
> 
>> I'd rather use Savannah than SF for anything.  SF keep changing their
>> T&C's and I've lost track of what's what on there.
> 
> Could you expand on this? What's "T&C". Hmm - Terms & Conditions?
> 
> I'm considering moving my library to either SourceForge or Savannah. I
> was leaning towards Savannah, but then someone pointed out that being
> on SourceForge makes it easier for others to find, which is an
> important point.

This is true. SourceForge is longer o the market and has more features. i.E.
the search function you where asking about:

http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=163

will show all projects with Ada relations. Searching for Ada on Savannah
will give you all sort of projects with "ada" in them.

And then even finding Savannah itself is a problem, it is _not_:

http://www.savannah.org/
http://www.savannah.com/
http://www.savannah.net/

So "find my project on savannah" is not an option. For comparison:

http://www.sf.net/
http://sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.com/
http://sourceforge.org/
http://www.sourceforge.net/
http://www.sourceforge.com/
http://www.sourceforge.org/

will all end on sourceforge. Only http://www.sf.com/ and http://www.sf.org/
won't end on sourceforge.

As the OP said: It is a desicion of techics angainst politict. Sourceforge
has the better features (including search), savannahs T&C are not as
strinct.

As for me: I am not politicly minded.

With Regards

Martin

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