We have been using SourceForge for a long, long time hosting all our Open Source projects. It was a tough decision to move away from SourceForge, however as our teams and projects grew – and as time went on – we felt SourceForge had lost touch with some of the fundamentals of software development for the sake of monetization.
Over 2008 I saw SourceForge move towards a services based model to attempt to support the projects which reside on it. In and of itself this is a great idea, however the real problem was that the world of web based applications had rocketed ahead whilst the core platform of SourceForge felt like it lagged behind.
Google Code was launched way back in August 2006 and has adopted the typical Google approach to its developer platform. This approach means that adding content, code and downloads is super simple and whilst the Issue Tracker in SourceForge was turned off for all our projects since it was so cumbersome, the Google Code Issue Tracker is just a joy to work with.
Overall, we feel that the impact on development and team collaboration will be vastly improved by making the move.
The Pixolüt Industries projects on Google Code are:
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