Alioth was a FusionForge system run by the Debian project for development of free software and free documentation, especially software or documentation to do with Debian.1
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.2
History
Alioth had been announced in March 2003.3 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.4 Alioth began running a GForge descendant called FusionForge in 2009. In 2018, Alioth was replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org; Alioth was switched off in June 2018.5
Alioth administrators have included Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas.6
References
References
- "Debian Is Moving to PHP 7, and So Are Numerous Other Linux Distributions" Softpedia News. Retrieved 2017-02-21.
- "Alioth: SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy: Project Info". Alioth. Archived from the original on 2007-09-10. Retrieved 2007-09-03.
- Introducing Alioth: SourceForge for Debian. 29 March 2003.
- Update on alioth. 12 April 2003.
- "its dead jim - alioth is gone". Archived from the original on 2019-01-29. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
- "Alioth: Site Admin: Project Info". Alioth. Archived from the original on 2011-05-20. Retrieved 2007-09-03.