Another revisionist myth. SourceForge (the first forge!) wasn’t “our own”, nor was BitBucket (mentioned by author), or Gitorious (which was famously archived btw). or sourceware, or …
I guess we can call ftp servers like the gnu ones “ours”. But that’s about it as far as where congregations of relevant projects lived.
Did some projects self-host with trac, cgit, mailman, …etc? Yes, of course. Just like how some projects self-host today with gitea/gitlab/…etc.
Another revisionist myth. SourceForge (the first forge!) wasn’t “our own”, nor was BitBucket (mentioned by author), or Gitorious (which was famously archived btw). or sourceware, or …
I guess we can call ftp servers like the gnu ones “ours”. But that’s about it as far as where congregations of relevant projects lived.
Did some projects self-host with trac, cgit, mailman, …etc? Yes, of course. Just like how some projects self-host today with gitea/gitlab/…etc.