I'm annoyed at SourceForge.

I've been trying for several days now to get ImplSearchBot accepted as a SourceForge project. Both times, it's been rejected for revision as "We're sorry, but due to the thousands of project requests we get per day, we don't have time to look at all the links." (Though I didn't get the reply to the first attempt until Monday, when I submitted it on Saturday.)

I was mildly annoyed the first time, as the links I'd included pointed to the bot's existing page which contained its description of behavior and its source code, and the description wasn't that long. Still, I understood where they were coming from, and replaced all the URLs in my request with several paragraphs detailing the behavior, theory and benefit behind how ImplSearchBot works. Then I resubmitted.

The next day, Tuesday, I got another rejection notice, for the same reason. Scratching my head, I looked over the request I'd sent, thinking I'd forgotten to delete the URLs in addition to the technical description I'd provided. No dice; I'd correctly removed the URLs.

So I scratched my head some more, trying to figure out why they were complaining about links. Then I saw it. I'd included as part of its description "I created ImplSearchBot as part of administering rosettacode.org" -- I often refer to Rosetta Code as rosettacode.org, for the simple reason that the phrase "Rosetta Code" sometimes gets confused with either spoken/written language software or the software used to run old Mac software on newer Macs. Someone or something saw the term "rosettacode.org" and decided that they would have to click on it before making a host/no-host decision, and clicked the "reject because of URLs" quick-reject button.

I'll try one more time, removing mention of Rosetta Code's domain name. If it gets rejected again, I'll find someone else to host it. Google Code has a nice system going, but I know a fair number of folks who don't want to touch it because they don't like the privacy implications of having that much mineable data under the control of a single company. SourceForge was a close second choice because they've got a long and established history hosting Open Source projects, and I've participated and run projects there before. I'm not crazy about GitHub, partially because I haven't yet learned Git, partially because they're a new player, and partially because their free accounts are limited in size.