Necoro’s Blog

Quite some time ago, I moved the main Portato hosting from Sourceforge to Origo. The reason was mainly, that I wanted some nice wiki-stuff w/o having to deal myself with hosting and configuring it. Also SF.net is … well … not really fast :).

But Origo has many other disadvantages, which I ignored so far:

• Does not support bzr — and does not allow to make the “Development” link point to somewhere useful.
• Uploading system sucks hard. Adds a random integer to each download URL, which makes it necessary to change the ebuild for each release.
• Flat namespace for attachments… Yes! … No comment -.-
• Bug tracker is ok for — but has real issues with attachments -.- … And it being built as somehow part of the wiki is not a good idea either.
• No possibility to put extra files somewhere (docs, …).

Additionally I noted, that sf.net now has some real nice features with its “Hosted Apps” — so it is possible for example to add a trac-instance — just with one click :D. So I’m now considering to move back to sf.net. I just do not know yet, whether I try to use trac and it’s bug tracker — or if I’m going to use the one in Launchpad. And where to host the bzr-branches? Also on sf.net — or leaving them on LP?

Comments are welcome :)