I remember when SourceForge was new, it was revolutionary. Sourceforge gave poor developers the means to host an open source project in public. SourceForge did for free what might be otherwise costly to set up. It gave users a version control system, a bug-tracker, a forum and a home page all as a turnkey solution.
That was then… Now I regard it as a nuisance. I’ts built around the antique CVS source-control system which while technically still better than Microsoft SourceSafe, has been overtaken by other technologies, most notably Subversion. CVS based projects are a nuisance to keep up to date compared to SVN. Put simply, if you are still using CVS, please give it up. Subversion does everything that CVS does only faster, better and with less hassle.
Allegedly Sourceforge will be launching a subversion trial service sometime soon; but will anybody want it now that SVN has made version control trivial to DIY? It might be far too late, as people who do not care about SVN will stick with SourceForge, and people who do have long since moved away.
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