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Has Archiveteam, Internet Archive or anyone else taken a shot at mirroring Sourceforge, including binaries? Since its founding there have been a hell of a lot
by mapt 11y ago
Has Archiveteam, Internet Archive or anyone else taken a shot at mirroring Sourceforge, including binaries? Since its founding there have been a hell of a lot of small projects hosted there whose sites have gone down since. 430,000 projects have been hosted on SourceForge at some point. At least a few tens of thousands of them represent the only remaining copy of a program needed to read a certain sort of data. Maintaining that capability in the face of a company circling the drain represents an extreme historical utility.
Even if you now need a VM to handle the crapware, that's better than losing the apps entirely. If somebody maintained a time-diffed mirror of SourceForge, they could pinpoint the last version before the bundling event occurred in an automated fashion, as well.
EDIT: It seems there's a project to begin this - http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=SourceForge http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=SourceForge and an IRC channel, EFNet #coldstorage
- castell 11y agoWe need a open source community website that manages and links to the download-mirrors (HEANET, etc.). There is no need to backup the downloads, just back up the source code and friendly take over the control over the mirrors.
- TazeTSchnitzel 11y agoArchiving SourceForge is indeed important. Just recently I needed it to hook up a printer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/usbtb%20-%20Mac%20OS%20X%20ONLY%20usb/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/usbtb%20-%2...