[teampractices] Apache Allura

[Matthew Flaschen]

On 04/02/2014 02:20 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
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> On Wednesday, April 2, 2014, Toby Negrin <tnegrin at wikimedia.org
> <mailto:tnegrin at wikimedia.org>> wrote:
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>     https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/wiki/Home/
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>     I haven't heard this mentioned in these discussions but it seems
>     like a viable solution.
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>     They provided a handy comparison matrix with other tools:
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>     https://forge-allura.apache.org/p/allura/wiki/Feature%20Comparison/
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>     I also hadn't realized that this type of software is called a "Forge" :)
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> In broad terms (don't quote me), this is the software developed by
> http://sourceforge.net/ over the years, different from an early fork
> that was popular (andI  used in some projects) years ago, http://gforge.org

It was developed initially by SourceForge, but it's not their original 
software (GForge is part of that original lineage).  Allura is a new 
plugin-based system.  See https://sourceforge.net/blog/an-open-forge/ .

I don't have any experience with it, so I can't really weigh in further.

Matt Flaschen