good news for the guys who have problems with the anonymous CVS access. SourceForge solves the performance problems. Please read the section "CVS update". The CVS checkout should be now possible again for all - not only for the developers.
Michael
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: SourceForge.net Sitewide Update: September 30, 2003 Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 01:10:23 -0700 From: SourceForge.net Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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0. Intro 1. Site Enhancements 2. CVS Update 3. Project of the month: Tight VNC 4. Stats and Top Projects
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Dear SourceForge.net User
SourceForge.net is approaching its 4-year birthday. Forty-six months ago the site started off with only a handful of second-hand computers, two megabits of bandwidth, a few hundred projects, and a goal. The goal was, and continues to be, to create a place for Open Source projects and the Open Source community to thrive and be successful. When we launched the site, we never dreamed that it would be so successful, or that its growth rate would be so high. Today, we host nearly 70,000 projects on 85 computers. The amount of bandwidth we consume at any one time, including the mirrors, is approximately 225 megabits. We continue to add about 700 new users and 70 new projects per day. In fact, we just crossed our 700,000 registered user milestone.
Since SF.net's inception, we have offered and continue to offer all of our services for free. This is something that we are very proud of, and something we will continue to do.
The site itself, as you can imagine, is very expensive to run. We just purchased a lot of additional equipment to manage the growth, and have hired addititiojnal SF.net programmers to code new features/functionality that you will see shortly.
If you like what we are doing on SourceForge.net, and you want to help out the site, here is your chance. To help cover the costs we have added a 'donate' link on our site navigation system.
If you do help us and make a donation, we'll place an icon next to your user name signifying that you helped cover the cost of running SF.NET. In addition, your user name will be listed on our donation page, which will be linked from the front page.
The link is http://sourceforge.net/donate
Thank you in advance.
BTW: Since I know people will ask: No, we are not doing this to try to 'save' SourceForge.net. The site is not in financial trouble, nor is it going away. Our parent company, if you read our quarterly financial statements, continues to show steady improvement. We are adding this donation feature because the site is very expensive to operate and we want to continue to add features and functionality that we know you want. If you like what we are doing for your project, if you like what we are doing for the Open Source community, now you can make a donation and help us out. Thank you.
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Thank you.
Pat-
Patrick McGovern Director, SourceForge.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Site Enhancements --------------------------------------------- The SourceForge.net team is continually working to improve the SourceForge.net site. A number of site enhancements have been made in the past few weeks. Among these enhancements are the new Monitoring and Mailings sub-pages of the My SF.net page (https://sourceforge.net/my).
The Monitoring page (which replaces the monitoring-related sections previously on the My SF.net page) includes a complete listing of all resources monitored by your account (including monitored Tracker items, not previously shown in our monitored resources listing). From this page, accessible using the "Monitoring" link on the My SF.net page, you may learn how to monitor Tracker items, Forums and File Releases, and remove existing monitors as needed.
The Mailings page provides a complete listing of all types of mail generated by the SourceForge.net site and services. A listing of the mailing lists to which you are subscribed is also provided, allowing easy access to the list archives or to change your list subscriptions (this is a new, often-requested inclusion of information from our mailing list servers, updated once weekly).
We are also continuing our work to enhance the usability of the SourceForge.net site. Although not an exhaustive list of our recent enhancements, our work includes the following: A number of minor improvements have been made to the Favorites pull-down menu, located in the upper left-hand corner of each page, which permits you to easily access your site bookmarks and your member projects. To help reduce issues in the user account registration process, we now require new users to verify they have properly keyed their account information (this helps reduce delays in account generation). Further, new links have been added for Project Administrators to the Project Summary pages to permit easier access to change project description and Trove categorization details.
We appreciate the feedback provided by site end-users and are Continuing our efforts to address reported issues, and to add time-saving features to the SourceForge.net site. Should you encounter an issue with any SourceForge.net site or service features, please submit a Support Request at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001
CVS Update --------------------------------------------- (This section was sent to project admins last week) As you may have noticed, CVS is visibly having growing pains. Due to system load, we have had to move anonymous checkouts to our backup server. This has made the code of our 70,000 projects more accessible to project developers. I know this temporary solution has frustrated some of you and I want to apologize for that.
This is what we are doing about it: We have 6 new systems that have been installed in our co-location facility. These are very fast Xeon systems, with very fast RAID. These systems will improve performance by a tremendous amount. (As a comparison, our current setup has two systems, one primary and one backup, that are three years old with slow processors and aging disk arrays).
In a previous sitewide email we proclaimed that the faster hardware would be online last month (August). This was the goal but we had some unexpected delays. These delays included late hardware delivery, additional electrical requirements in our colo cage, and a host of other issues. That's the bad news. The good news is we are very close to having this fixed.
As of right now, we are working around the clock to get these new boxes online to give relief to the performance issues. Our primary CVS server is copying 15 million files to these six new machines. Since this box is also serving CVS checkins and checkouts to the community simultaneously, the data transfer has been slow going. During the last 4 days we have transfered 40% of the data. We expect the rest of the data to be transfered by Thursday of next week, and the new boxes online shortly there after. Hang in there, we will have this behind us in the very near term.
Update: Two of the six systems are now online. It is likely you have already have already noticed a difference. CVS stats will be back online shortly as well.
SF.NET Project of the Month: Tight VNC --------------------------------------------- VNC stands for Virtual Network Computing. It is, in essence, a remote display system that allows a user to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet and on a wide variety of system architectures. VNC is a very useful for administering a remote computer in the same office or around the world. It is also often used for training or supporting computer users visually over the phone.
TightVNC, SourceForge.net's September project of the month, is an enhanced VNC Client/Server that is designed to operate in low bandwidth situations. Its primary developer, Constantin Kaplinsky, is a programmer located in Russia.
URL: http://tightvnc.com/ Project Page: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-tight/
Stats and Top Projects. --------------------------------------------- Number of Projects: 68,800 Number of Registered Users: 706,833
Daily Stats for September 26, 2003
SF.NET : 2,019,737 pages served SF.NET project web space : 5,141,411 pages served Total Pages: 7,161,148
Open Source Files downloaded in 24 period: 564,390 Outgoing Mailing list emails: 1,610,139
Top 25 Projects:
1. Gaim https://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim Gaim is a GTK2-based instant messenger application. It supports multiple protocols via modules, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster, Gadu-Gadu and Zephyr. It has many common features found in other clients, as well as many unique featur
2. eGroupWare, Enterprise collab suite https://sourceforge.net/projects/egroupware eGroupWare is a multi-user web-based groupware suite written in PHP. Included are modules for Email, Adressbook, Calender, Infolog (Notes, Todo, Phone Calls), CMS, Forum, Bookmarks, Wiki, Knowledgebase, Polls and ...Also included is a powerfull API.
3. AWStats https://sourceforge.net/projects/awstats Advanced Web Statistics (AWStats) is a free powerful and featureful web server logfile analyzer that shows you all your Web (but also FTP or Mail) statistics including visits, unique visitors, pages, hits, hours, search engines, keywords, robots, etc...
4. Tiki CMS/Groupware https://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki Tiki is a powerful CMS/Groupware. Features: article, forum, newsletter, blog, file/image gallery, wiki, drawing, tracker, directory, poll/survey & quiz, FAQ, chat, banner, webmail, calendar, category, ACL, etc in Single Sign-on or LDAP.(PHP/MySQL/Smarty)
5. guliverkli https://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli Home of VobSub, Media Player Classic (MPC) and other misc utils.
6. WinMerge https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge A visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. Useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions
7. wxWindows https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows wxWindows is a free C++ framework that facilitates cross platform software development, including GUIs, threads, sockets, database, file system access, etc.
8. POPFile - Automatic Email Classification https://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile POPFile is an email classification tool with a Naive Bayes classifier, a POP3 proxy and a web interface.It runs on most platforms and with most email clients.
9. phpWebSite Content Management System https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpwebsite Developed by the Web Technology Group at Appalachian State University, phpWebSite provides a complete web site content management system.All client output is XHTML 1.0 and meets the W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative requirements.
10. FileZilla https://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla FileZilla is a fast FTP client for Windows with a lot of features.FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
11. Compiere ERP + CRM Business Solution https://sourceforge.net/projects/compiere Smart ERP+CRM solution for Small-Medium Enterprises in the global marketplace covering all areas from customer management, supply chain and accounting. For $2-200M revenue companies looking for "brick and click" first tier functionality.
12. phpMyAdmin https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpmyadmin phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
13. phpGedView https://sourceforge.net/projects/phpgedview The phpGedView project parses GEDCOM 5.5 genealogy files and displays them on the internet in a format similar to PAF.All it requires to run is a php enabled web server and a gedcom file.It is easily customizable for use on many different web sites.
14. net-snmp https://sourceforge.net/projects/net-snmp net-snmp provides tools and libraries relating to the Simple NetworkManagement Protocol including: An extensible agent, An SNMP library,tools to request or set information from SNMP agents, tools togenerate and handle SNMP traps, etc.
15. ScummVM https://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm ScummVM is a cross-platform interpreter for several point-and-click adventure engines. This includes Simon the Sorcerer by AdventureSoft, Beneath a Steel Sky by Revolution, and most SCUMM-based games used by LucasArts in titles such as: Maniac Mansion,....
16. Dev-C++ https://sourceforge.net/projects/dev-cpp Dev-C++ is an full-featured Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Win32. It uses GCC, Mingw or Cygwin as compiler and libraries set.
17. SpamBayes anti-spam https://sourceforge.net/projects/spambayes Bayesian anti-spam classifier written in Python.
18. Gallery https://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery A slick, intuitive web based photo gallery with authenticated users and privileged albums.Easy to install, configure and use.Photo management includes automatic thumbnails, resizing, rotation, etc.User privileges make this great for communities.
19. AMSN https://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn AMSN (Alvaro\'s Messenger) is a MSN messenger clone for linux/unix/windows/mac. It features multilanguage support, file transfers, new graphical interface, emoticons, multiple profiles support, dock icon, sound events, email notification, url processing.
20. dotproject https://sourceforge.net/projects/dotproject PHP web-based project management framework that includes modules for companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, multi-language support, user/module permissions and themes
21. PCGen -- An RPG Character Generator https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcgen PCGen is a java role-playing game character generator and maintenance program. All datafiles are ASCII so they can be modified by users, and are available through the pcgendm project. An XML conversion is underway.
22. TightVNC https://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-tight TightVNC is an improved version of VNC, great free remote-desktop tool. The improvements include new bandwidth-friendly "tight" encoding, local cursor support on the client side, enhanced GUI, many bugfixes, and more.
23. jBpm.org - java Business Process Mgmt https://sourceforge.net/projects/jbpm jBpm is a WorkFlow Management System. Business processes must be expressed in process archives in a simple and powerfull language. Users or systems perform single steps of the process.jBpm maintains the state, logs and performs all automated actions.
24. Gimp-Print - Top Quality Printer Drivers https://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print A very high quality package of printer drivers for Ghostscript and CUPS.This project also maintains the Print plug-in for the Gimp from the same code base.
25. DC++ https://sourceforge.net/projects/dcplusplus This is a project aimed at producing a C++ version of the popular DirectConnect client, enhancing on functionality and performance. Later on, a hub (server) is planned.
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