Ask HN: Setting up an open source project.

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18 years ago

We have a ton of projects at massify.com we've been itching to open source, but we're obviously a little short on time. I'm wondering if anyone has actively participated or maintained an open source project and can help me answer some bullet points:

A. Has anyone ever started an open source project? B. Any recommendations for project hosting (github, sourceforge, google code, etc.) C. Tips on general project maintenance.

The biggest project is that we want to fork PHP. I'm not sure what kind of nightmare that would be. We have successfully been running a patched version of PHP that supports anonymous functions, closures and array shortcut notation. I guess this might be a whole different topic? Has anyone maintained a fork before?

Thanks for any input.

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