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> 1) There is nothing clear and open about the project being abandoned by the author Then you say: > 2) The author left SourceForge... Pretty sure if you lef

> 1) There is nothing clear and open about the project being abandoned by the author Then you say: > 2) The author left SourceForge... Pretty sure if you left SF with the project still up on SF, any reasonable person could consider that abandoning the project. A more responsible thing would have been to remove the project entirely and shut it down. > 3) Is SourceForge just going to maintain any project that leaves them and makes a mirror? I assume you mean the only obvious option is to remove the project entirely (or disable from view) for those that leave. Leaving up old code at the scale of GIMP has the potential for leaving up unpatched code that is still downloaded and used. If your opinion is that nothing should have been done at all, I think that's far worse than what anything SF did.

SwellJoe 11y ago
What's interesting is that SF.net seems to not care if you have removed the project. Or, even if the project never existed at SourceForge, at all. In the previous thread about this issue, someone linked to the sf-editor1 account, which has projects for a huge swath of software, including software that has never been hosted at SourceForge. https://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/ https://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/ It is part of their "mirror directory" project, which seems designed merely to get traffic from popular Open Source software, and occasionally inject malware into downloads that they can dupe people into getting from SF.net rather than the authoritative source. And, of course, in this case, the author of Gimp-Win has plainly stated they did not abandon the SF project. They were locked out by SourceForge staff. I'm all for caution before reaching for the pitchforks and the torches, but there's an awful lot of very large, very credible, projects saying, "Yes, SourceForge did this to our project." I sent them an email yesterday asking for clarification, but have not received a reply.
davidgerard 11y ago
In this case, the maintainer was still maintaining the page - he found out when he was locked out of his account.

SwellJoe 11y ago

What's interesting is that SF.net seems to not care if you have removed the project. Or, even if the project never existed at SourceForge, at all. In the previous thread about this issue, someone linked to the sf-editor1 account, which has projects for a huge swath of software, including software that has never been hosted at SourceForge. https://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/ https://sourceforge.net/u/sf-editor1/profile/ It is part of their "mirror directory" project, which seems designed merely to get traffic from popular Open Source software, and occasionally inject malware into downloads that they can dupe people into getting from SF.net rather than the authoritative source. And, of course, in this case, the author of Gimp-Win has plainly stated they did not abandon the SF project. They were locked out by SourceForge staff. I'm all for caution before reaching for the pitchforks and the torches, but there's an awful lot of very large, very credible, projects saying, "Yes, SourceForge did this to our project." I sent them an email yesterday asking for clarification, but have not received a reply.

davidgerard 11y ago

In this case, the maintainer was still maintaining the page - he found out when he was locked out of his account.