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This may be off-topic, but I decided to ask it here anyway, because it's very related to programming.
I'm looking for a site which will host a free software project for free, offer SVN and Hg access, bug tracking &co, space for a blog...
Any tips?
Also, should this be community wiki?
Have a look at Kenai which is IMO very nice (especially if you like Jira) and offers Projects, User Profile, Code Hosting, Issue Tracking, Wiki, Forums, Email lists, Downloads, more....
Below a comparison with the "competition" (seems a bit inaccurate actually, Google Code does offer Hg):
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For more site and feature comparisons,
see the Wikipedia page Comparison of
open source software hosting
facilities.
Check it out.
google code?
Quotes from their website:
It provides a fast, reliable, and easy open source hosting service with the following features:
Instant project creation on any topic
Subversion and Mercurial code hosting with 2 gigabyte of storage space and download hosting support with 2 gigabytes of storage space
Integrated source code browsing and code review tools to make it easy to view code, review contributions, and maintain a high quality code base
An issue tracker and project wiki that are simple, yet flexible and powerful, and can adapt to any development process
Starring and update streams that make it easy to keep track of projects and developers that you care about
sounds exactly like your description.
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Is there any open source alternative to Documentum CMS. While doing the evaluation for this I came across Alfresco, Nuxeo and Apache Jackrabbit. I would like to know if I missed something and If there are any other products that I missed.
Thanks in advance.
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Ajai G
You pretty got the point.
Nuxeo is based on Open Source but you have to pay the license, and is pretty expensive (at this point, Documentum is better anyway.
Apache Jackrabbit, I personally never saw in action, so I don't have a clue. Apache is a strong Open Source mass of projects, so I think for a Java developer is a great point to start.
Alfresco, at last, is the best choice here, 'cuz you have Enterprise and Community versions, if you want to pay for support or note. Here, if you are/have Java developers in team, you can create a pretty nice web-app with some great tools like sharing content/workflow/full text indexing and so on.
I think it's the most complete system out there, and it really have great potential.
I work for a company that is making business with this product, and I have to say we're very happy about it.
So full disclosure - I work for Nuxeo. But I want to clear up a misconception: Nuxeo is fully open source, and does not charge for licenses. The code's on GitHub. There's only one version - no enterprise / community versions. We charge for a subscription to support, maintenance, and a customization tooling.
This is pretty much these ones, AFAIC I would go with Nuxeo
#Alch3mi5t Nuxeo is completely opensource and free (LGPL), even more than Afresco:
There is no difference between a Community and a Enterprise version, it's just the same. Customers who are paying have the same product than any other people.
What are they paying for ?
Nuxeo Studio, a online graphical tool to easily customize Nuxeo without having to edit xml nor having to write java code.
Support to get answers to questions
Hot fixes on a specific release can be easily installed from the admin center. (sources are available in github, if you are not a Nuxeo Customer, and you can rebuild these one with maven)
If you need to do more complex customization, here is where Java developers would be happy. Nuxeo has a
pluggable architecture with plugins and extension points, almost anything in nuxeo can be overridden in Nuxeo with extension points: UI, server and feature configuration, core configuration, document structures, rest services, backend DB, etc ... it's quite powerful.
There is a free and opensource plugin for eclipse to help java developers: Nuxeo IDE
don't hesitate to ask any questions on the irc channel: #nuxeo in freenode
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I have an applicaion, that can best be described 'loosly' as a scripting application, primarly designed for part time developers, engineers and sciences types with a VB.NET background (can theoretically do C#).
This has been a long three year hobby and I am about 95% complete. I am planning to make the applicaiton freely available for most (if not all) uses, but I do not want to open source it (at least right now).
I was looking for an online place to post and collaborate with some folks for feedback, to get some testing done and finalize the application (my wife wants me to be DONE with it). My searches online have revealed many spaces, but all seem to be open-source spaces that require release of the source code, or just aplace to post 'free' completed software. I am looking for the collaboration part.
Can anyone point me to a such a space that does not require providing the open source code (if it even exits)?
I think you can use most of the collaboration places without actually uploading any source to the repository.
I've seen a bunch of project on Google Code Hosting that have no source (usually its then on GitHub) and just use the Google Hosting for bug-tracking and collaboration.
I created a BitBucket account. Looks like it might work. Many of the sites require you to choose an open source license before you even create a space. BitBucket does not.
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I am currently working as a consultant but i found that i have not been doing coding for a very long time.
So i wonder if there are any other nice websites beside sourceforge.net which can allows me to do some coding.
Thanks
sourceforge.net - All sorts of open source software, from Linux to BSD to Windows.
codeplex.com - Mainly Microsoft technologies-focused. This is where you'll find more of the .NET open source stuff.
For general indexes to open source software, see freshmeat and Ohloh. The former is a classic index of open source software and the latter has statistics about the source code for each project, which might be handy if you want to judge how active a project is.
If you want to join easily, distributed revision control is nice. The big hosting sites for Mercurial (Bitbucket), Git (Github) and Bazaar (Launchpad) should give you plenty of projects to browse and, hopefully, contribute to :-)
OpenHatch (openhatch.org) is nifty (IMO) because:
The site provides a number of "bite size" bugs from Free Open Source Software (FOSS) projects.
There is a Map showing the registered users in your area, along with the langauges and projects they are involved in.
The site provides an email forwarding address with rotating "anti-spam salt" by which other contributors may reach out to contact you. (You may choose whether to use this, or provide an alternate means to contact you on the site.)
Also, there's Github and Google Code
Google Code.
IMO, much nicer than SourceForge.
How about Google Summer of Code?
If you're just looking for a small quick project, Clusterify.
Ohloh is an other good collection of open source projects.
It provide details, timeline and notes.
There's lots of under served open source sectors that you can give your extra time to.
You don't have to do what everyone else is doing, take for example, the loads of time wasting CMS projects out there, while there seems to be no proper OCR in Java, and Jira is a great issue tracking system, no doubt, but its not open source, Bugzilla sucks, don't say Mantis, and Eventum is written in PHP(I'm a Java fanatic)
The best source for open source projects is of course sourceforge.net, Google code, not so much.
We can not say that one website is better, it depends on the domain you work, so your best friend is well http://www.google.com with your keywords
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We want to implement chat on our website so that users can communicate with each other.
Our general requirements are:
It should be rendered on our web pages, but it could be rendered in an IFrame or something like that. The users of our website are part of the general public, not internal teams, so we don't want them to have to install a separate app.
Users should be able to use their existing account with our website and not have to create a new account for the chat tool. If we partner with someone, like Meebo, we don't want to have to share a significant amount of our user information for partner.
Code under an public license, but preferably not an open-source project using the GPL license, but BSD or MIT license (and probably others) is okay. An inexpensive product with a non-public license may be okay as well.
We want to get this implemented pretty quickly, and we don't really want to build our own solution.
Has anyone worked with or familiar with a solution that would satisfy some or all of these these requirements? Any other ideas/suggestions?
Thanks.
There are quite a few. As for open source try
https://blueimp.net/ajax/
If you need a heavy duty chat server with web based extension look at
http://www.igniterealtime.org
We currently used this internally in a Windows enviornment. We had some issues getting it to work with Active Directory so we went for the mySQL installation.
Why not shell out a few bucks for (sometimes it's cheaper NOT to re-invent the wheel)
http://www.aspnetajaxchat.com
Hope that helps
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I have heard of desktop applications whose code has been open-sourced, but are there any websites whose code has been open-sourced? I don't think I have heard of any. If there are aren't any, are there any reasons why?
This will have the advantage of not having to wait for the web development team to include a new feature. Also, this would ensure that more eyes see the code, ensuring a lower bug count. Of course, hacking would be easy.
Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/
The wiki behind Wikipedia et al: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
GrailsCrowd: http://grailscrowd.com/
Slashcode [slashdot engine]: http://www.slashcode.com/
The reason that not as many people do it is because it would be easy for someone to set up a complete clone of your website without making any useful changes. OK, that's strictly allowed with true 'open source' code, but it's not quite within the spirit of the thing (IMO) and if the site became even moderately popular there would be a lot of useless clones. The site would become essentially worthless.
Those are -websites- that are open source. There is a huge amount of web application software that is open source [some of it shitty]
WordPress
InkType
Joomla
osCommerce
ZenCart
Drupal
Check out reddit.com's source code here: http://code.reddit.com/. I do think there is a profit consideration when a site is built, for them to release their source code would allow copy-cat sites and dilute their market share.
PHP.net is open-source. Hell you can checkout a copy of their website if you want to.
Many answers have addressed the competitive aspect, but that really applies equally to all FOSS projects, web-based or not. The distinctive feature of web sites is that, by and large, the users of the software do not have access to the code in any form - source or binary - so the typical FOSS requirement that you make the source available to anyone who receives the binary becomes pretty much meaningless. I believe this to be the primary impediment to widespread use of FOSS licenses in conjunction with websites.
(There have been recent attempts to develop web-focused FOSS licenses which specifically address this issue, but none have really caught on yet.)
Isn't the code (slash) to slashdot open source?
Wikipedia/Mediawiki is open source on multiple levels. MediaWiki (the software which runs WikiPedia) is open source, and accepts contribumtions, and the content of WikiPedia is also open source and editable by everyone.
There's also LiveJournal (http://www.livejournal.com) which has been open source for years.
phpbb.org
django
joomla
dotnetnuke
SugarCRM
OSCommerce
DotNetNuke
Mambo
There's quite a bit of software that are open source.
All of the seaside-based systems on squeaksource.com