Finally. About time – this has been requested several times since 2006 or so.
The announcement: Git now available for SF.net hosted projects.
Interestingly, the features page mentions that there is no quota. In that sense, SourceForge seems to be better off than other git services that have a “soft” quota (repo.or.cz has 100 MB for example).
Some pros/cons:
rant git, sourceforge
Looks like the Wikipedia article Virgin Killer has ended up on the “child porn blocklist” provided by the National Bureau of Investigation. Several customers of TeliaSonera have reported that they can’t access “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer” (although “http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Killer” still works). I suspect other ISPs doing transparent or non-transparent censorship using a proxy will soon start blocking the page as they update their blocklist.
Not very surprising. After all, they managed to put W3C on the child porn list earlier, claiming it happened because of a “mistake in Excel.” Some people who dug around the user webpage area of W3C.org suspected that it may’ve really been because there were some pictures of men kissing each other. The list has earlier received major criticism partly because it lists a lot of (non-child)pornography sites, and especially ones returned by Google when searching for “gay porn.”
This is most likely related to UK’s Internet Watch Foundation flagging the article as child porn [1][2].
Update 2008-12-07:
Update 2008-12-09: Just a quick clarification: TeliaSonera wasn’t blocking Wikipedia because of the NBI blocklist; they were “accidentally” using the Internet Watch Foundation’s blocklist.
rant censorship
JUnit, the popular unit testing framework for java, is licensed under the Common Public License 1.0. Unfortunately, CPL seems to be incompatible with both GPL version 2 and 3 [1][2][3].
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rant legal
For a few years distributed revision control systems have been picking up speed especially in free software projects, but increasingly so in companies and organisations as well. While the problem of “disconnected” working on code was solved by the distributed revision control model, what remained was the fact that issue tracking still couldn’t be done in a truly distributed manner.
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rant rant, software
I recently noticed that one of the channels I had been chatting on was being logged, and made publicly available for search engines to index. There’s nothing new about public logging of IRC – in past I’ve run into channels that announce public logging in the topic, and sometimes chosen to refrain from contributing to the discussion. However, the way I discovered the logging this time was a much less comfortable – I ran into the logs when googling for something…
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rant legal, rant
I have to admit I wasn’t expecting to get my SourceForge project registration rejected this morning when I submitted it, but I guess it happens. They wouldn’t have an approval process in place otherwise, would they?
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rant rant
It seems Gmail’s forwarding feature does not really forward all mail (true for Apps at least). When you select “Settings->Forwarding and POP/IMAP->Forward a copy of incoming mail to” and set an e-mail there, only the e-mails sent to your literal address (“user@somewhere”) are forwarded. E-mails that were already forwarded to that address or sent with the ‘+’ suffix (eg. “user+tag@somewhere”) are *not* forwarded. You can’t even use filters to achieve this.
This sucks, because when using Apps and regular gmail account you most likely would want to forward a couple of aliases (eg. webmaster) to the main account@domain and then all coming to that to regular gmail. And you can’t use the ‘+’ suffix for the real address. 
Update: Okay, I was too hasty. Looks like the above holds true only for when you send e-mail from your regular gmail account to the Apps one. When sent externally, all mail seems to be forwarded regardless of whether ‘+’ suffix is used or whether it’s sent to the actual account (“user+tag”, “webmaster+tag”, etc. are forwarded).
rant gmail, google, rant
My image of SourceForge is slowly deteriorating.
Here is what I asked for (in Account Options -> Site Mailings):
And here is what I get instead:
I guess it’s time to look at alternatives, such as BerliOS and Google Code.
rant sourceforge
