[GRLUG] I'm annoyed at SourceForge

[Michael Mol]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Adam Tauno
Williams<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 17:27 -0400, Dave Brondsema wrote:
>> Michael Mol wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Michael Mol<mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Dave Brondsema <dave at brondsema.net> wrote:
>> >>> And as for the approval process, I'm not sure how that works.  Let us
>> >>> know if it doesn't get approved when you remove the "rosettacode.org"
>> >>> references.  My guess would be too many links triggers a spam filter.
>> >> That would have been my guess, too, if I'd received the initial
>> >> rejection email over the weekend instead of on Monday.  Still, I'll be
>> >> following up.
>> > Well, simply having the string "rosettacode.org" in the application
>> > was enough to trigger the link filter at the time.
>> > Still not entirely happy with it at the moment, for what I hope are
>> > acute (rather than chronic) problems, but we'll see.
>> As of a few weeks ago, new SF.net projects don't require approval at
>> all.  They're created immediately.
>
> It took me no time at all to create COILS.
> <http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/coils/>
> So far it has been reliable and reasonably fast.

I set aside a few minutes to quickly find and add a bugtracker app
module so I wouldn't need to field roughly anonymous reports directly.
 Took me five minutes to figure out how to find the project
administration features from the project page.  Kept thinking I was
looking at a search results page, then had to switch away from the
default tab before the project admin tab was visible.  Saw I had
IdeaStorm installed, clicked on it briefly to see if it would do what
I needed.  It wouldn't, so I went back to add a bug tracker, and got
nothing but timeouts trying to get at the app list.  Gave up when I
ran out of time on my break.


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