Why Sourceforge lost its mojo

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Collapsing Under Its Own Weight

Whenever I try to find something in a general search on SourceForge, the result list is huge. Then a lot of my time is wasted looking at "projects" that are just stubs or barely started, then apparently abandoned years ago. If there's a dedicated project site, you know someone was serious about it and able to follow through with enough effort to make a web site worthwhile.

SourceForge could stand some housecleaning. In keeping with the Open Source/community idea, maybe they should add a way for users to report apparently dead or abandoned projects, which could then be at least moved to a separate archive section unless the owner does something.

Posted by: MichP   Posted on: 12/13/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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