Replace SourceForge with these Better Alternatives

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SourceForge is a long established web-based service that offers source code repository, downloads mirrors, bug tracker and other features. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage free and open-source software development.
SourceForge has been recently touting controversy with a bizarre move to added bundled commercial projects with 'unmaintained' code from open source projects; in particular GIMP was affected. Following media outrage, SourceForge has since vowed to discontinue this practice, although there remain other practices that are questionable to open source developers, such as the transfer of project pages they deem are inactive, and malvertising. Is it time for developers to look elsewhere to host projects? Fortunately, there are some excellent alternatives.

GitHub

GitHub is currently the world’s largest, and most popular code hosting site. It is web-based and uses Git, an open-source version control system that was started by Linus Torvalds, the principal force behind the Linux kernel.
GitHub provides distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) functionality of Git as well as adding its own features. It offers a web-based graphical interface and desktop as well as mobile integration. It also gives developers access control and several collaboration features.
Features include:

• Integrated issue tracking
• Powerful collaboration - pull requests, commit comments, compare view
• Other collaborative tools include wikis, task management, bug tracking, and feature requests
• Web hosting
• GitHub Flavored Markdown for formatting text
• Syntax highlighted code & rendered data supporting over 200 programming languages
• Binary downloads
• Manage teams within organizations
• Free public repos
• SSL, HTTPS, and SSH data transmission and two-factor authentication are core elements of security at GitHub
• Applications and tools that integrate with GitHub

Testimony to its popularity, GitHub has over 23 million repositories.
Website: github.com

Bitbucket

Bitbucket is a Git and Mercurial based source code management and collaboration solution in the cloud. Bitbucket is written in Python using the Django web framework.
Features include:

• Simple to set up and use even for teams new to Git or Mecurial
• Pull requests, commit histories, and code reviews
• Hold discussions right in the source code with inline comments
• Good user interface and tools
• Issue tracking
• Wiki
• Web hosting
• Binary downloads
• Free public repositories
• Unlimited private repositories
• Integrates with many APIs and services

Bitbucket restricts you to work with only 5 people for free.
Website: bitbucket.org

GitLab

GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager with code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds, wikis. GitLab is close to GitHub, but GitLab is released under an open source license (MIT license).
GitLab is used by more than 100,000 organizations, and can cope with 25,000 users on a single server. A subscription gives you access to the company's support team and to GitLab Enterprise Edition that contains extra features aimed at larger organizations.
Features include:

• Beautifully designed
• Group your repositories
• Source code search
• Fine grained permission management
• Contributor statistics
• Import from Bitbucket, GitHub, anywhere

Website: about.gitlab.com

Fossil

Fossil is a simple, high-reliability, distributed software configuration management system. It is released as a single self-contained stand-alone executable. Being distributed, Fossil requires no central server.
Features include:

• Built-in and intuitive web interface reducing project tracking complexity
• Uses ordinary HTTP (or HTTPS or SSH) for network communications, so it works fine from behind restrictive firewalls
• CGI/SCGI Enabled
• Supports "autosync" mode which helps to keep projects moving forward by reducing the amount of needless forking and merging
• Content is stored using an enduring file format in an SQLite database so that transactions are atomic

Fossil is free software released under the 2-clause BSD license.
Website: fossil-scm.org

How to replicate a MySQL database on Linux

http://xmodulo.com/replicate-mysql-database-linux.html

Database replication is a technique where a given database is copied to one or more locations, so that the reliability, fault-tolerance or accessibility of the database can be improved. Replication can be snapshot-based (where entire data is simply copied over to another location), merge-based (where two or more databases are merged into one), or transaction-based (where data updates are periodically applied from master to slaves).
MySQL replication is considered as transactional replication. To implement MySQL replication, the master keeps a log of all database updates that have been performed. The slave(s) then connect to the master, read individual log entries, and perform recorded updates. Besides maintaining a transaction log, the master performs various housekeeping tasks, such as log rotation and access control. When new transactions occur and get logged on the master server, the slaves commit the same transactions on their copy of the master database, and update their position in the master server's transaction log. This master-to-slave replication process is done asynchronously, which means that the master server doesn't have to wait for the slaves to catch up. If the slaves are unable to connect to the master for a period of time, they will download and execute all pending transactions when connectivity is re-established.
Database replication allows one to have an exact copy of a live database of a master server at another remote server (slave server) without taking the master server offline. In case the master server is down or having any trouble, one can temporarily point database clients or DNS resolver to the slave server's IP address, achieving transparent failover. It is must be noted that MySQL replication is not a backup solution. For example, if an unintended DELETE command gets executed in the master server by accident, the same transaction will mess up all slave servers.
In this article, we will demonstrate master-slave based MySQL replication on two Linux computers. Let's assume that the IP addresses of master/slave servers are 192.168.2.1 and 192.168.2.2, respectively.

Setting up a Master MySQL Server

This part will explain the steps needed on the master server.
First, log in to MySQL, and create test_repl database.

$ mysql -u root -p

mysql> CREATE DATABASE test_repl;

Next, create a table inside test_repl database, and insert three sample records.

mysql> USE test_repl;
mysql> CREATE TABLE employee (EmployeeID int, LastName varchar(255), FirstName varchar(255), Address varchar(255), City varchar(255));
mysql> INSERT INTO employee VALUES(1,"LastName1","FirstName1","Address1","City1"),(2,"Lastname2","FirstName2","Address2","City2"),(3,"LastName3","FirstName3","Address3","City4");

After exiting the MySQL server, edit my.cnf file using your favorite text editor. my.cnf is found under /etc, or /etc/mysql directory.

# nano /etc/my.cnf

Add the following lines under [mysqld] section.

1 2 3 4 5 6

[mysqld] server-id=1 log-bin=master-bin.log binlog-do-db=test_repl innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1 sync_binlog=1

The server-id option assigns an integer ID (ranging from 1 to 2^23) to the master server. For simplicity, ID 1 and 2 are assigned to the master server and the slave server, respectively. The master server must enable binary logging (with log-bin option), which will activate the replication. Set the binlog-do-db option to the name of a database which will be replicated to the slave server. The innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=1 and sync_binlog=1 options must be enabled for the best possible durability and consistency in replication.
After saving the changes in my.cnf, restart mysqld daemon.

# systemctl restart mysqld

or:

# /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Log in to the master MySQL server, and create a new user for a slave server. Then grant replication privileges to the new user.

mysql> CREATE USER repl_user@192.168.2.2;
mysql> GRANT REPLICATION SLAVE ON *.* TO repl_user@192.168.2.2 IDENTIFY BY 'repl_user_password';
mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

A new user for the slave server is repl_user, and its password is repl_user_password. Note that the master MySQL server must not bind to the loopback interface since a remote slave server needs to log in to the master server as repl_user. Check this tutorial to change MySQL server's binding interface.
Finally, check the master server status by executing the following command on the server.

mysql> SHOW MASTER STATUS;

Please note that the first and second columns (e.g., master-bin.000002 and 107) will be used by the slave server to perform master-to-slave replication.

Setting up a Slave MySQL Server

Now it's time to set up the configuration of a slave MySQL server.
First, open my.cnf on a slave server using your favorite text editor, and add the following entries under [mysqld] section.

# nano /etc/my.cnf

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server-id   = 2 master-host = 192.168.2.1 master-connect-retry    = 60 master-user = repl_user master-password = repluser master-info-file    = mysql-master.info relay-log-index = /var/lib/mysql/slave-relay-bin.index relay-log-info-file = /var/lib/mysql/mysql-relay-log.info relay-log   = /var/lib/mysql/slave-relay-bin log-error   = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.err log-bin = /var/lib/mysql/slave-bin

Save the changes in my.cnf, and restart mysqld daemon.

# systemctl restart mysqld

or:

# /etc/init.d/mysql restart

Log in into the slave MySQL server, and type the following commands.

mysql> CHANGE MASTER TO MASTER_HOST='192.168.2.1', MASTER_USER='repl_user', MASTER_PASSWORD='repl_user_password', MASTER_LOG_FILE='master-bin.000002', MASTER_LOG_POS=107;
mysql> SLAVE START;
mysql> SHOW SLAVE STATUS \G;

With the above commands, the local MySQL server becomes a slave server for the master server at 192.168.2.1. The slave server then connects to the master server as repl_user user, and monitors master-bin.000002 binary log file for replication.

The above screenshot shows the status of the slave server. To find out whether replication is successful, take a note of three fields in the status output. First, the Master_Host field is supposed to show the IP address of the master server. Second, the Master_User field must display the user name created on the master server for replication. Finally, the Slave_IO_Running should display "Yes".
When the slave server starts working, it will automatically read the database log in the master server, and create the same table(s) and entries if they are not found in the slave. The screenshot below shows that the slave server has the same entries in the employee table as the master server (see the red square). When the city value is updated from the master server, the change is automatically replicated to the slave server (see the yellow square).