Everything about SourceForge
Software discovery and hosting platform for B2B and open source software
SourceForge is a web service that provides a centralized software discovery platform, including an online platform for managing and hosting open-source software projects, and a directory for comparing and reviewing B2B software that lists over 104,500 business software titles. It provides source code repository hosting, bug tracking, mirroring of downloads for load balancing, a wiki for documentation, developer and user mailing lists, user-support forums, user-written reviews and ratings, a news bulletin, micro-blog for publishing project updates, and other features. Wikipedia →
🧠Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SourceForgeA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Source*Forged ArmorThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Dynamics of innovation in an "open source" collaboration environment: lurking, laboring, and launching FLOSS projects on SourceForgeCited 44 times
- Go sideways: Potentially unwanted programA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Apache OpenOfficeA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Dynamics of innovation in an "open source" collaboration environment: lurking, laboring, and launching FLOSS projects on SourceForge
Sustainability in Open Source Software Commons: Lessons Learned from an Empirical Study of SourceForge Projects
“The Canary in the Coal Mine…” A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge
The Relevance of SourceForge Data in the Age of GitHub
Mining Roles Structure of OSS projects in SourceForge
Data integration using scanners with SQL output - The Bioscanners project at sourceforge
đź“š Books worth reading
Source*Forged ArmorPaul J. Bartusiak · 2013
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