Monday, February 19, 2018

Re: Moving away from SourceForge


On 16. Feb 2018, at 20:17, Christian J. Robinson <heptite@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Bram Moolenaar wrote:

The recent (and ongoing) outage of the Vim website on SourceForge shows again that this is not a good place to host Vim.

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If you have positive or negative comments about moving to osdn.net, let's discuss that.

I think this move is the right choice even without the outage. SourceForge's current owners/leadership has been engaged in behaviors that are antithetical to the original mission of the service:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SourceForge#Controversies

I have no problem with the change Sourceforge changed owners since then and they didn't like those things either. From the same Wikipedia-article about Sourceforge and DevShare:

The program was cancelled by new owners BIZX, LLC on February 9, 2016;[10] on May 17, 2016 they announced that it would scan all projects for malware and display warnings on downloads."

Niels

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