Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge (cnet) [LWN.net]

Over at cnet, Matt Asay takes a look at Forge.mil, the new US Defense Department open source project repository. "Despite being based on SourceForge's technology, Forge.mil has one significant difference: security. As David Mihelcic, chief technology officer for the Defense Information Systems Agency, told Federal Computer Week, the Department of Defense's code repository has been 'upgraded to meet DOD security requirements,' with smart cards used to provide log-in credentials." (Thanks to Kanchana Wickremasinghe)

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Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge (cnet)

Posted Feb 2, 2009 21:22 UTC (Mon) by lolando (guest, #7139) [Link] (1 responses)

I can't seem to access the website from here, but it would be interesting to know whether their code "based on SourceForge's technology" is something completely new or some evolution from GForge. If the latter, we at FusionForge would be very interested in the parts that can be made public, and that would fit quite well with our stated goal of trying to unfork some of the Sourceforge-based and GForge-based lines of development.

Defense Department sets up its own SourceForge (cnet)

Posted Feb 2, 2009 22:17 UTC (Mon) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

from reports elsewhere it seems to be based on "SourceForge Enterprise".

And the new FusionForge is indeed worth mentioning.