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Can you recommend alternatives that offer all their features? We use currently for example sourcecontrol, forums, bugtrackers, a wiki, the image galleries and their website hosting. I'm often unhappy with SF, but it's not quite that easy finding that kind of service elsewhere.

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A few old projects of mine (including code, binaries, screenshots and mostly static webpages) are hosted on SourceForge, as are a live demo and stable snapshots of one actively maintained project. None of those use an installer but users may now (quite reasonably) come to expect software, especially software for Windows, to be shady by sheer association with SourceForge.

Now, the stable snapshots could go on Bitbucket and the code's remove origin is already on GitHub. That leaves me with two questions:

1. Where to can I move the old projects that can be reasonably expected to stay up for another decade?

2. Where do I host the live demo? I'd prefer a free or near-free service since this is a not-for-profit FOSS project. I have the option of waiting for my Raspberry Pi to come online [1].

The closest thing to SourceForge in terms of features that I know of is http://developer.berlios.de/. Can anyone share their experiences with it?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5946940

AFAIK, there is no drop in replacement. We use:

  * GitHub for SCM and wiki docs.
  * SourceForge for mailing lists
  * Self-hosted Redmine for bug tracking
  * Freenode IRC for realtime collaboration

Bitbucket has git & mercurial, bugtracker, wiki and a download feature for binaries. Not sure about forums.

Try a self-hosted Gitlab installation [1] [2] for a project management interface with Git integration.

For hosting file downloads, I recommend nginx. If the bandwidth is more than your server's connection can handle and you don't want to upgrade it, you could either use AWS or other cloud vendors, or provide your download as a torrent.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6270446

[2] http://gitlab.org

Well, it is possible to host it yourself (this isn't an alternative if you just want something as a service, obviously):

http://sourceforge.net/projects/allura/

We had bad experiences in the past with parts that were privately hosted. The problem is that people always are motivated for a while and then tend to move on after a few years because they have new interests. Having a server that's not depending on individuals in the team just works better in the long run.

I think Assembla does. I know it has sourcecontrol, forums (well messages), bugtrackers, and wiki. Not sure about Image Galleries and website hosting.

github has source control, a bug tracker, and website hosting. Don't know about forums and wikis.

GitHub certainly has wikis, I often use project wikis to document various bits and bobs.

wikis yes. forums.. not really unless you abuse the bug tracker. Github+Google Groups seems to be the complete package these days. BitBucket also provides website/wiki/issue tracker/source control features.

Yeah, it's probably a good solution for new projects. The problem with existing projects is when you already have a quarter million posts in your forum and don't want to lose them. Although maybe a mix of providers - keeping forums on SF and moving the rest of the project might be a solution.

Forum is one area Github is in a great position to enter right now. Wrangling bug tracker to act as a forum is a bit of a hack so a proper place for developers to interact and discuss projects would be most welcome.

I have a product I'll be launching soon in exactly this space: mailing lists/forums/chat with github integration.

Email me if you're interested in alpha/beta testing (see my profile).

I recommend LaunchPad.net. It's open-source so you can always host it yourself.

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