[Debian-sf-users] State of the 'Forge?

[Mathew Jason Binkley]

Hi.  I'm trying to build a website using Sourceforge or something similar for 
Vanderbilt University researchers to host computer source and datasets.  Thus 
far I've looked at: 

     * Debian-SF      [ http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/debian-sf/ ] 
     * sf-genericinst [ http://sf-genericinst.sourceforge.net ] 
     * Savannah       [ http://savannah.gnu.org ] 

and Sourceforge clones: 

     * XoopsForge     [ http://xoopsforge.sourceforge.net ] 
     * GBorg          [ http://gborg.postgresql.org ] 

Not to be mean, but they are all either bleeding raw to the point of being 
unmaintainable, or lack the basic functionality we need (CVS/web/mailing list). 

Since I've heard mention that the various SourceForge groups are working to 
unify their codebases, I was wondering if someone in the know could give a 
small "State of the (open) Sourceforge" message about how things stand and 
where they're going.  It's hairpulling trying to make a long-term decision 
about which program to use given the current state of affairs. 

In my experience, Sourceforge has little documentation, ugly code, requires 
days of work to get semi-working on my Debian Woody box (mostly due to LDAP), 
and has a ton of "Sourceforge.net"-specific stuff that needs to be cleaned out. 
XoopsForge is brand new and growing fast, very clean code, but doesn't support 
the features we need.  GBorg installs almost out of the box, but isn't being 
actively maintained (last version is 1+ years old), has myriad tiny bugs in the 
lastest stable distribution and like SourceForge a lot 
of "gborg.postgresql.org"-specific stuff. 

Hopefully I haven't ignited a flame war, because I'm genuinely interested in 
all of them, and respect the amount of hard work it takes to build/maintain 
something like it.  If anyone knows any other software I haven't mentioned, I 
would love to hear about it. 


Mat
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Mathew Jason Binkley
Vanderbilt University