Daley Ponderings

I found a link to this application a while ago, but never took the time to check it out.  Fortunately, it stuck in the back of my mind that there was a handy application, although even handier that I had saved my bookmarks from an old computer, because I couldn't remember the name, and I couldn't find it with a fair bit of google searching.  So, I'll add this post, both to help future searchers, and also to say what a wonderful application it is.  I don't know python, but could figure it out enough to fix a login bug due to SourceForge changing their login page.  Since I found the bug, I assume that means no one else is using it, though the bug does only apply to new users, so maybe there are a bunch of current users.

ReleaseForge takes the clunky slow interface of sourceforge's file release process, and turns it into a simple couple click operation, even for hundreds of files.  For LifeType, we generally re-release files (particularly the _all_templates.zip file) and sourceforge doesn't really like you re-releasing stuff, but wants you to rename it every time.  That "feature", as well as some broken advertising javascript on each release page, causes each file release to take at least a couple minutes each.  If you could mass delete files, that would help, but they should really just advertise ReleaseForge, and be done with it.

PS. Perhaps Chip is right when he says something needs to change about search engines.  I didn't really buy it when I read his post (nor when I worked at a company that worked on natural language processing for search engines), but this example was one that I really couldn't find it because I didn't know word "Release Forge".  I tried all sorts of other things in various combinations: easier file upload tool for sourceforge, fileforge, file release system, etc. without any success.