Alioth (Debian)

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Alioth was a FusionForge system run by the Debian project for development of free software and free documentation,

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Most of the projects hosted by Alioth were packaging existing software in the Debian format. However, there were some notable non-Debian projects hosted, like SANE project.{{cite web | title = Alioth: SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy: Project Info | publisher = Alioth | url = http://alioth.debian.org/projects/sane/ | accessdate = 2007-09-03 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070910080235/http://alioth.debian.org/projects/sane/ | archivedate = 2007-09-10 | url-status = dead }}

History

Alioth had been announced in March 2003.[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/03/msg00024.html Introducing Alioth: SourceForge for Debian]. 29 March 2003. Originally Alioth was to be hosted on the SourceForge code base; the Free Software version of GForge was chosen later as it avoided the need to duplicate effort spent on rebranding SourceForge.[http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/04/msg00006.html Update on alioth]. 12 April 2003.

Since 2009, Alioth has been running a GForge descendant called FusionForge.

In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org. Alioth has been finally switched off in June 2018.{{cite web | url = https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/06/msg00001.html | title = its dead jim - alioth is gone | accessdate = 2019-01-29 | archive-date = 2019-01-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190129071637/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/06/msg00001.html | url-status = live }}

Alioth administrators have included Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas.{{cite web | title = Alioth: Site Admin: Project Info | publisher = Alioth | url = http://alioth.debian.org/projects/siteadmin/ | accessdate = 2007-09-03 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110520072339/http://alioth.debian.org/projects/siteadmin/ | archive-date = 2011-05-20 | url-status = dead }}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20110225194238/http://alioth.debian.org/ Official website]

Category:Debian