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--- NEW FILE: introduction.xml ---
<chapter id="gm_introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<section>
<title>About GForge</title>
<para>
GForge is a software for collaborative development for
the software community. It provides a full configured development system with
versioning, a project web site and tools for communication between members of a
development team. The tools provided by GForge allows team members to
communicate and organize their work; this allows the creation of a
knowledgebase.
</para>
<para>
A complete configurated GForge system will give you the
following features:
</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>A Web site for every
project</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Versioning via CVS</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Shell access to the server for the
developers</para></listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A web site for project coordination and
comunication between team members:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem><para>Discussion Forums - For
discussions between team members</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Bug tracking - Allow
registration and administration of bugs</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Support requests, patch
submissions, and enhancement requests</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Comunication between
project members using mailing lists</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Sharing of
documentation</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Handling of todo lists,
tasks, etc</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>File
uploads/releases</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Posting of news - Every
project can have its own news items.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Code Snippets -
Provides of a basic knowledgebase that can contain code fragments, HOWTOs,
etc.</para></listitem>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>
The tasks and the tracker items (to track bugs,
patches, support requests, enhancement requests) can be classified using
status, priority, category.
</para>
<para>
The system provides also a classification system of the
projects, a user profile, and a user rating system.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>GForge History</title>
<para>
GForge is a fork of the 2.61 SourceForge code, which
was only available via anonymous CVS from VA (Research|Linux|Software). <ulink
url="http://gforge.org">gforge.org</ulink> is not a project hosting platform,
it is merely an implementation of the GForge code. We believe that the GForge
functionality is important not only to the Open Source community, but to the
wider business community.
</para>
<para>
Since VA has not released the source in over one year,
despite their promises to the contrary, a fork was necessary to ensure a viable
open source version of the codebase.
</para>
<para>
The GForge project was formed and is maintained by Tim
Perdue, the original author of much of the original SourceForge web code.
</para>
<para>Major changes are present in the current GForge
codebase:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Jabber Support - System events, such as
bug submissions, are optionally sent via jabber and email</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Radically easier to install - By
removing SF.net-specific code, like caching and image servers, many install
dependencies have been eliminated.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>New interface - The interface makes it
easier to navigate as well as know your present location.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Code cleanup - Since GForge does not
need to scale to 500,000+ users, many hacks and optimizations have been
removed</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Foundries and related nonsense have
been removed</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</chapter>
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