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Since this is a discussion forum, I dare use it to announce a new release of the best (IMO) Java open source discussion software, JForum. There isn't much new in terms of functionality or bug fixes, but it now runs natively on JakartaEE 10 - meaning you need Tomcat 10.1 or comparable to run it. Previous versions ran fine using the webapps-javaee mechanism of Tomcat, but that's supposed to be something of a temporary hack. And for JForum, it's no longer needed now :-)

You can find a ready-to-run war file at https://sourceforge.net/projects/jforum2/, along with documentation.

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Congrats on the latest release of your software. May I ask what inspired the decision to host the project on Sourceforge instead of GitHub? I rarely see well-maintained projects on sourceforge these days, sadly.

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May I ask what inspired the decision to host the project on Sourceforge instead of GitHub? I rarely see well-maintained projects on sourceforge these days, sadly.

JForum had already lived on SF for several years before I became involved. At this point there are just 2 committers, and while we talked about moving to Git, it never seemed to provide enough upside to justify the work. Personally, I was also involved in other projects on SF, and thus quite familiar with everything it offers.

It's true that SVN is unfashionable these days, and that it might be easier to attract outside help with Git. But given that feature work on JForum has largely come to a halt, due to forums becoming less fashionable themselves, I'm not sure that that would buy us much.

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A bit off topic, but as a developer of one, DaniWeb started on SVN and eventually moved to Git when redoing the platform from scratch about a decade ago. I also really like being in GitHub, despite it being a private repository so I’m not taking advantage of the network effect.

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