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As Github.com lacks afaik a binary hosting / download feature and Google Code closed its service (no new projects) - it would be great if all the Sourceforge mi

by frik 11y ago

As Github.com lacks afaik a binary hosting / download feature and Google Code closed its service (no new projects) - it would be great if all the Sourceforge mirrors (heanet, etc.) would be coordinated from an open source community instead of coordinated by Sourceforge.org. There is definitely a need for a binary hosting and mailing list website for open source projects, to fill the hole that Sourceforge may leave behind. I remember the "BerliOS" from a Germany's Fraunhofer institute that was a kind of clone of Sourceforge, a open source project hosting service. It was closed in 2013 and some valuable code and binaries are lost forever.

pierrec 11y ago
Github does have a pretty good binary hosting / download feature, it's called Releases. There's even an API to automate it. It's not very widely used, perhaps because it only rolled out it 2013. About Releases: https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software An example: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/releases/ https://github.com/adobe/brackets/releases/ As for mailing lists, I guess their excuse is that they already provide possibilities for discussion in the issue tracker (which can be also interacted with entirely by mail). This is appropriate as a forum for developers - but not a forum for users, which would be out of Github's scope, IMO.