Notices tagged with sourceforge
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Aug-2022 12:53:18 UTC 
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
I'm starting to wonder whether operating a shared #code-hosting platform is only possible with sponsorship. #Gitorious collapsed because their paid hosting couldn't cover their costs (which includes the cost of free hosting). I don't believe #Github ever publicly released figures, but I do remember hearing a rumor that they were not profitable before #Microsoft purchased them. #Bitbucket still persists, but #Atlassian has made so many changes to their offerings that IMO, using their platform is putting everything that touches it at risk. #SourceForge went to all sorts of dangerous extremes to try to monetize the huge number of repositories they host (most of which appear to be residue of projects that have either died or moved their active repos elsewhere).
#Darcs_Hub ( #Darcs ), #The_Nest ( #Pijul ), and #ChiselApp ( #Fossil ) are all too small to experience the tremendous cost factors. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Jul-2022 14:16:35 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
> We should not use github and never should have because Free Software needs Free tools[0].
> [0] https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
#GitHub's proprietariness has always been an unseen landmine, but like its predecessors #SourceForge, #GoogleCode, #CodePlex etc, projects have chosen based on present convenience (FOSS friendly, zero or low price for non-profit projects and individuals, large numbers of users --> potential for drive-by contributions). However, the big issue with GH and the others listed above was that to some degree, they were the center of gravity for code-hosting in their respective time periods.
#DVCS software such as Git, Breezy, Mercurial, Fossil, Darcs, Pijul and so on could be used to enable a much more distributed hosting model--and should be. If people and projects do not have to join a specific #code-hosting site in order to contribute to a project / attract contributors, the allure of sites like GitHub starts to fade.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Jun-2022 04:34:26 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
> Deleted all the forks I had on GitHub, moved the very few repos I care about over to Codeberg
I believe moving over to #Codeberg is a big improvement over relying on #GitHub (which, as #SourceForge once was, is the center of gravity for FOSS projects' development).
I closed all my repos on GH some years back. I kept one or two repos on #BitBucket for years, but they were basically dead. When BB rid itself of #Mercurial ( #hg ) and switched solely to #git, I took advantage of the opportunity to close my account there.
That said, large numbers of people moving en mass from GitHub to Codeberg would just move the problem to a different platform. The problem being people rely heavily on a centralized service.
As for GitHub, I still have my account, and with job-hunting, I really need to put something there. Seriously, I have had some places send rejection notices because they couldn't see any evidence (on GitHub) that I knew anything about the job. But I really only want GH to be a secondary mirror of a main repo hosted elsewhere. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-May-2021 15:17:56 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
"Wait and see?"
Remember when #Sourceforge got new owners that started seizing the SF pages for projects that had moved to Github and pretending the project was active at its former location?
That's what #Freenode is doing in this policy change. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Mar-2021 04:04:09 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
#YottaDB https://yottadb.com/ is forked from #GT.M, which used to be at http://fis-gtm.com/ ... but the site appears to be gone.
The GT.M project page at #SourceForge is still there: https://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm/ with recent releases ( latest is currently 2021-02-15 ). See also "Wikipedia":{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GT.M}.
YottaDB development takes place at https://github.com/YottaDB/YDB
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Sep-2020 03:20:23 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@musicman They say thereβs a .war file at #SourceForge, if you donβt want to have to build #OpenKM yourself. You should be able to drop the file in your #Tomcat serverβs webapp directory. -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2020 09:31:55 UTC 
Strypey
@nono anyone who hosts source code is distributing software. Plus, code forges have usually distributed official releases in binary form. These are often linked free project homepages, a practice going right back to #Sourceforge.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2019 12:22:05 UTC
Strypey
@benjaminbellamy at this point I'd rather pay an ethical business to take care of the hosting headaches for me, which is why I was asking. I did have a look at #PodcastGenerator, having seen that @dajbelshaw and Dai use it for #TIDE. There hasn't been a release of PG in a year and a half and the homepage hasn't been updated in that time. Plus it's hosted on #SourceForge. None of that inspires me with confidence.
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Jan-2019 02:58:07 UTC
Strypey
@LWFlouisa absolutely. Corporate platforms have exploited a culture of collaborative creation and free sharing that emerged around early #commoning platforms, passing themselves off as being the same as community-orientated hosts like #SourceForge, #SlashDot, and #Wikipedia. It's a classic bait-and-switch.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 08-Jun-2018 01:14:35 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@klaatu From what I hear, there has been a recent change of ownership. I don't know how true it is, but if it is true, it could provide an explanation for why they may have truly changed.
Disclaimer: I haven't regularly visited #Sourceforge in years. This is all based on what I've heard people saying. -
notklaatu (klaatu@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 07-Jun-2018 22:56:07 UTC 
notklaatu
@ragazzonoioso I took you up on your dare. I figured the most likely candidate for adware from SF would be Windows, so I installed #ReactOS in a VM, downloaded and installed some .exe filles from #sourceforge, and I admit everything looked clean, vanilla, true to upstream.
There *are* a heck of a lot of ads (even with ublock on) on sourceforge.
Sourceforge like Github, as far as I know, isn't open. But it's a place that once had brand recognition and still does serve some stuff I like.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Jun-2018 10:01:40 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@bob I've said for years that centralizing on #Github for #code-hosting is a mistake and a lapse of judgement. It's repeating #SourceForge all over. -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Jun-2018 09:40:37 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
@bob I've said for years that centralizing on #Github for #code-hosting is a mistake and a lapse of judgement. It's repeating #SourceForge all over. -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Apr-2018 08:52:32 UTC 
Danyl Strype
@xurizaemon that's a bit harsh. #SourceForge suffered a few years of poor stewardship, but they improved. Some active projects still use it -
Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2018 01:24:05 UTC 
Christine Lemmer-Webber
@JordiGH @craigmaloney Thanks for the heads up... I pinged people in #sourceforge on freenode... let's see what happens.
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Craig Maloney β (craigmaloney@octodon.social@octodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Feb-2018 01:21:10 UTC 
Craig Maloney β
@cwebber Ping #sourceforge on Freenode. I think they still have a presence there.
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Craig Maloney β (craigmaloney@octodon.social@octodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2018 16:35:03 UTC
Craig Maloney β
I'm amazed at how many projects still use Sourceforge's Project Web for hosting their documentation and main site.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 27-Aug-2017 06:25:04 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Just recently heard about a network called #MNet that was said to have similar ideas to #Freenet. So I found it on #Sourceforge. Abandoned since 2004. https://sourceforge.net/projects/mnet/files/mnet/ -
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Aug-2017 02:19:52 UTC
LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
Sounds like #Sourceforge
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