Alioth (Debian) Explained

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] 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In 2018, Alioth has been replaced by a GitLab based solution hosted on salsa.debian.org.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.^[5]

Alioth administrators have included Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas.^[6]

External links

Official website

Notes and References

http://news.softpedia.com/news/debian-is-moving-to-php-7-and-so-are-numerous-other-linux-distributions-498951.shtml "Debian Is Moving to PHP 7, and So Are Numerous Other Linux Distributions"
Web site: Alioth: SANE - Scanner Access Now Easy: Project Info . Alioth . 2007-09-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070910080235/http://alioth.debian.org/projects/sane/ . 2007-09-10 . dead .
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/03/msg00024.html Introducing Alioth: SourceForge for Debian
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/04/msg00006.html Update on alioth
Web site: its dead jim - alioth is gone . 2019-01-29 . 2019-01-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190129071637/https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/06/msg00001.html . live .
Web site: Alioth: Site Admin: Project Info . Alioth . 2007-09-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110520072339/http://alioth.debian.org/projects/siteadmin/ . 2011-05-20 . dead .