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Preferring sourceforge over github seems like an unusual choice, I didn't realise anyone still used it. It's a git repo too, I wonder why they did that?

by philbo 14y ago

ritonlajoie 14y ago
Well, I don't think they'll accept any pull request, I think hosting these files on sourceforge won't make any difference.
Argorak 14y ago
I reckon they just wanted to publish a tarball and Github is really bad at handling those.
prg318 14y ago
I really don't understand the notion that SourceForge is dead and no one uses it anymore. http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/npppluginmgr/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/fceultra/ (Shameless plug) Just to name a few. As a project admin of fceultra I cannot say that I'm 100% pleased with the UI of the bugtracker and the sf does have its quirks, but sourceforge has had a much better track record than github in respect to uptime. My question to you is "Why not?"
- easytiger 14y ago
  yea but how old are those projects? I recognise some of those from the 90s If you were starting new today you wouldnt choose it. It is a clusterfuck. How the owners can't see the writing on the wall and change is beyond me. For all I know maybe they are
- philbo 14y ago
  Tbh, I was speaking from a position of ignorance. The last time I used sourceforge properly must have been circa 2006/7 and it was an abomination then - clearly that is not the case now. It definitely felt cleaner from a UI perspective today (albeit not github-clean) and the sluggish document load times that I remember were also not in evidence. The open-source ecosystem is definitely richer for every hosting solution that exists, sf included, so if my comment seemed sneery I apologise. It just surprised me at the time is all.

Preferring sourceforge over github seems like an unusual choice, I didn't realise anyone still used it. It's a git repo too, I wonder why they did that?

by philbo 14y ago

Preferring sourceforge over github seems like an unusual choice, I didn't realise anyone still used it. It's a git repo too, I wonder why they did that?

ritonlajoie 14y ago

Well, I don't think they'll accept any pull request, I think hosting these files on sourceforge won't make any difference.

Argorak 14y ago

I reckon they just wanted to publish a tarball and Github is really bad at handling those.

prg318 14y ago

I really don't understand the notion that SourceForge is dead and no one uses it anymore. http://sourceforge.net/projects/vlc http://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/emule/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/npppluginmgr/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/azureus/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/fceultra/ (Shameless plug) Just to name a few. As a project admin of fceultra I cannot say that I'm 100% pleased with the UI of the bugtracker and the sf does have its quirks, but sourceforge has had a much better track record than github in respect to uptime. My question to you is "Why not?"

easytiger 14y ago
yea but how old are those projects? I recognise some of those from the 90s If you were starting new today you wouldnt choose it. It is a clusterfuck. How the owners can't see the writing on the wall and change is beyond me. For all I know maybe they are
philbo 14y ago
Tbh, I was speaking from a position of ignorance. The last time I used sourceforge properly must have been circa 2006/7 and it was an abomination then - clearly that is not the case now. It definitely felt cleaner from a UI perspective today (albeit not github-clean) and the sluggish document load times that I remember were also not in evidence. The open-source ecosystem is definitely richer for every hosting solution that exists, sf included, so if my comment seemed sneery I apologise. It just surprised me at the time is all.