Upcoming changes to the hosted apps service

Greetings,

This message is being sent to all SourceForge.net project members to notify
them of exciting upcoming changes to our Hosted Apps offering. Over the
past few months we have been working hard to better integrate this service
with the SourceForge.net site. This new integration will launch soon.

The changes are:

 * Better and more consistent 'skinning' around each of the apps for visual
consistency.
 * Revised anti-webspam controls.
 * sourceforge.net will be used as the hostname for access, replacing the
old apps.sourceforge.net and userapps.sourceforge.net hosts. Old URLs will
be forwarded to the new URL paths.  We'll leave this forwarding in place
indefinitely.
 * User authentication (login) will be handled using the normal
SourceForge.net login mechanism, eliminating the need to authenticate
separately to the Hosted Apps, and enabling the use of both SourceForge.net
usernames and OpenID.

These integration changes will also allow us to enable additional
application specific theming and skinning options in the future.

This is a major change to the Hosted App infrastructure and will require a
few hours of service downtime.	We will use the downtime to launch the new
code and upgrade all the app instances and their data for the changes.	We
expect this cutover to occur some time in the next 1-2 weeks, once our QA
activities have concluded successfully.  Once scheduled, the date and time
for this downtime window will be announced to site status at
http://sourceforge.net/sitestatus/

If issues are encountered post-upgrade (with the Hosted Apps or with any of
our other services), we'll be here to help.  Questions about this upcoming
cutover, or encountered issues can be reported as detailed at
http://sourceforge.net/support/ or by emailing
[email protected]

We thank you for your patience during the upgrades and hope you'll enjoy
these new features.

Cheers,

The SourceForge.net Team


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