FSF Plans to Launch 'Forge', a public Code-Hosting/Collaboration Platform

guest · Mar 8, 2020

FSF reveals plans to build a public code hosting and collaboration platform
March 7, 2020
https://sdtimes.com/softwaredev/fsf...blic-code-hosting-and-collaboration-platform/

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) announced plans to launch a public code hosting and collaboration platform (“forge“) this year.

Members of the FSF tech team are currently reviewing ethical web-based software that will help teams work on their projects, with features like merge requests, bug tracking, and other common tools.

“Infrastructure is very important for free software, and it’s unfortunate that so much free software development currently relies on sites that don’t publish their source code, and require or encourage the use of proprietary software,” FSF wrote in a blog post.
As of now, the team said it has been researching a list of candidate programs and analyzing them in terms of ethical and practical criteria.

“We also hope that in the future we’ll be able to see decentralized, federated collaboration platforms that meet most needs,” FSF wrote. “We will continue to be interested in that direction, but we think the need for this freedom-respecting forge is time-sensitive, so we’re going to do it with the free software we have available right now.”
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FSF: Coming soon: A new site for fully free collaboration

The new site will complement the current GNU and non-GNU Savannah servers, which we will continue to support and improve, in collaboration with their awesome volunteer team.

The project will operate with a high level of transparency: we will publish the source code that runs on the server and document how we run the system, and we welcome volunteers to help guide and improve the project.
Stay tuned to hear from us about the software stack we end up choosing, and for our site launch announcement!
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