4.1. Hosting on Sourceforge.net

Umbrello was, and largely still is, hosted on Sourceforge.net[sourceforge.net]. Sourceforge hosts Free Software projects and provides a collection of tools to enable and enhance collaborative development. The tools include revision control, bug and feature trackers, web site hosting, mailing lists and file releases. There are individual equivalents to all of these tools and Sourceforge makes use of many of these external projects but brings them under a unified web interface with a single login and point of administration. Many projects which are organised in the same style as Umbrello set up their own servers to host the projects but using Sourceforge I have been able to concentrate on managing the development of Umbrello rather than configuring management tools. Sourceforge's main downside is that it is a victim of its own success. It is relied upon by so many Free Software projects that if it were to lose funding or experience technical failure it would prevent development of a lot of programmes.

When Umbrello became part of KDE I moved the bug/feature trackers and CVS repository to KDE's facilities. This brings a large body of KDE developers into contact with Umbrello's code.