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Are there any big projects still using SourceForge? I know "big" is a little subjective here, but it seems like most active projects have already migrated.

by smaili 11y ago

krasin 11y ago
Despite having a mirror on github, OpenCV docs refer to SourceForge as the primary location: http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/introduction/linux_install/linux_install.html http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/introduction/linux_inst... "Getting the Latest Stable OpenCV Version Go to our page on Sourceforge;"
- driverdan 11y ago
  That's not surprising. OpenCV docs are woefully out of date.
SwellJoe 11y ago
Our Webmin website, mailing lists, downloads, and a few other things are still running on SourceForge, for the time being. (I guess it counts as "big", with 3+ million downloads a year, it has always been a top-ten project in its category at SF.net.) We moved revision control to github several years ago. We just haven't had time lately to figure out what to do about the SF.net malware situation, but I can't imagine we'll stay there for too much longer, given the circumstances. We don't provide a Windows installer, so we're probably not at any immediate risk from SourceForge practices, but it doesn't seem like a smart place to be, given their behavior.
- edge17 11y ago
  I got malware in the installer for Filezilla on my Mac. They shove malware in all sorts of non-windows stuff these days...
  - barbs 11y ago
    I didn't believe you at first, but I just went to install it and...wow... https://imgur.com/a/o6cSW https://imgur.com/a/o6cSW
    - yAnonymous 11y ago
      FileZilla are one of the few major projects who actually agree to this. Complain about it on their forums and you'll get a ban.
      - z92 11y ago
        FileZilla opted in for this service, and gets a percentage of the revenue generated by installing these malware.
    - logicallee 11y ago
      I thought you were going to show a virus result - the screen you showed is very unambiguously an opt-in screen, it even has the term "Accept" (as opposed to some other word like next or install) making you look at it - if the text said something else you would be very likely to just click it. The button at the left 'skip' is also clear about your other option (if it said 'cancel' it would sound like you're aborting installation.) I just don't see how this is a trick. There's not even a "default" option here, except for the Accept button being on the right. How can anyone possibly click the word "Accept" without even glancing at the text surrounding it - even a glance shows you the giant icon with the slogan "Mac Cleaner Clean Up Junk Files on Your Mac"? If you look at the bullet points, the first one clearly identifies what it does. So it's an opt-in screen. There's no default. The action word is "Accept" and the top bullet is about the additional software you would be installing, with a giant picture and caption showing the same thing. Or you can click "skip." This is above-board if you're going to do this sort of thing. Hell, given how above-board it is I might just click "Accept" in this case! (knowing that the devs opted into it as well.) It is very, very hard to read this as anything other than an opt-in screen. How can you be any less ambiguous?? EDIT: I didn't even notice, there is even grey small text that spells this out in completely unambiguous words! (Thank you for considering this offer from our advertiser...your choice does not affect installation of FileZilla.) I honestly don't even know that I would ask FileZilla to change anything whatsoever about this screen. It's great!
chanux 11y ago
lame (lib-lame :) ) I maintain a ffmpeg build and two of codec code destinations are SF. lame and opencore-amr.
- lozf 11y ago
  That reminds me - SoX is still there.
scrollaway 11y ago
We're in the process of fully removing ourselves from Sourceforge (LXDE). At work (Pootle), we're also moving our mailing lists away from Sourceforge. They were the last bit of SF we still used.
- david-given 11y ago
  Where to, if I may ask? I have some small projects I'm trying to get away from SF, and the mailing lists are the hardest bit --- finding mailing list providers which support bulk import isn't easy.
  - scrollaway 11y ago
    Discourse is what we're currently looking at. They have very nice pricing options for both one-time-installs and continued hosting/support.
    - david-given 11y ago
      I looked at Discourse, and for the scale of my projects the pricing is unmanageable. Hosted by them it's $1000+ a year; hosted by me it's still $100+ a year ($200+ for the first year). Installing it and running it myself requires spinning up a moderately high-end docker instance, which I'm unwilling to do (not only does it cost money, but I've only just managed to stop running my own servers, and it's great).
      - scrollaway 11y ago
        Why don't you pick the one-time install ($100) on a server you already own? If your ML is low-traffic there's no reason it should cost you much more than a couple dollars a month.
        david-given 11y ago
        They won't install it on my own server. The $100 one-time install fee installs it on a virtual server with Digital Ocean, which then costs $10 a month hosting.
chime 11y ago
I was surprised to find Keepass on it today.
japhyr 11y ago
I think NumPy still uses SourceForge.
- celias 11y ago
  and github - https://github.com/numpy/numpy https://github.com/numpy/numpy
  - japhyr 11y ago
    This is great! It still looks like you have to go to SF for the windows installers; am I missing something? Do you know if there's any plans to move away from SourceForge? If I was in charge of the project, I'm not sure what I'd do. Maybe move all active development to github, but not abandon the SF repo to malware injection?
est 11y ago
homebrew?
- Tehnix 11y ago
  Aren't they on github? https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew
  - lvillani 11y ago
    They used to use SourceForge to distribute bottles (binaries), but have switched to Bintray a while ago.
    - ashkulz 11y ago
      Do you know anyone else who uses bintray? I'm considering hosting downloads for the open source projects I maintain with them, but never heard of it much before.
      - lvillani 11y ago
        Off the top of my head I recall only Vagrant (https://bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant https://bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant)
- wyclif 11y ago
  For some odd reason, when I try to do 'brew upgrade tmux' I get the error 'tmux 1.9a already installed.' I want to upgrade to tmux2.
PuercoPop 11y ago
SBCL (one of the more popular CL implementations) is on sourceforge
gnurag 11y ago
I think FUSE is still on SourceForge.
axcocq 11y ago
MinGW-w64 I tried to find a mirror but couldn't. They link to Sourceforge from their official site.
lloeki 11y ago
ScummVM, Inkscape and wkhtmltopdf seem to be hosted there.
- boundlessdreamz 11y ago
  Not wkhtmltopdf - It is on github and has been for some time. https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf It was never on sourceforge as far as I know. It was in Google Code and then later github
  - spdionis 11y ago
    Except that the download links on wkhtmltopdf.org send you on Sourceforge...
    - boundlessdreamz 11y ago
      Ah! I had forgotten about that
    - ashkulz 11y ago
      That will be changing in the near future. Still undecided about where the downloads will be hosted, though.
- TomFrost 11y ago
  ScummVM has been maintained on GitHub for a few years now: https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm The downloads are still on SF, though. That's unfortunate.
S4M 11y ago
Maxima (computer algebra system) is still using SourceForge: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ It is one of the oldest software in the world.
Arkanosis 11y ago
7-Zip is still partially relying on SF, though the downloads seem to been moved elsewhere.
rbanffy 11y ago
Not everyone is into retrocomputing, but CDE is huge, if not very active.
nes350 11y ago
zsh: http://www.zsh.org/ http://www.zsh.org/
hugh4life 11y ago
The Lazarus IDE(Delphi Clone... 1,500 downloads a day) uses it for at least their downloads. If projects need to host binaries what are the best alternative to sourceforge?
- nitrogen 11y ago
  GitHub should work these days.
brianzelip 11y ago
git's OSX build is on sourceforge.
kbrosnan 11y ago
Keepass uses them for downloads, forums and issue tracking. It is often in the sf.net top 10 projects. http://keepass.info http://keepass.info
dewyatt 11y ago
GeoServer uses it to host their Windows installer and other binaries, etc

Are there any big projects still using SourceForge? I know "big" is a little subjective here, but it seems like most active projects have already migrated.

by smaili 11y ago

Are there any big projects still using SourceForge? I know "big" is a little subjective here, but it seems like most active projects have already migrated.

krasin 11y ago

Despite having a mirror on github, OpenCV docs refer to SourceForge as the primary location: http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/introduction/linux_install/linux_install.html http://docs.opencv.org/doc/tutorials/introduction/linux_inst... "Getting the Latest Stable OpenCV Version Go to our page on Sourceforge;"

driverdan 11y ago
That's not surprising. OpenCV docs are woefully out of date.

SwellJoe 11y ago

Our Webmin website, mailing lists, downloads, and a few other things are still running on SourceForge, for the time being. (I guess it counts as "big", with 3+ million downloads a year, it has always been a top-ten project in its category at SF.net.) We moved revision control to github several years ago. We just haven't had time lately to figure out what to do about the SF.net malware situation, but I can't imagine we'll stay there for too much longer, given the circumstances. We don't provide a Windows installer, so we're probably not at any immediate risk from SourceForge practices, but it doesn't seem like a smart place to be, given their behavior.

edge17 11y ago
I got malware in the installer for Filezilla on my Mac. They shove malware in all sorts of non-windows stuff these days...
- barbs 11y ago
  I didn't believe you at first, but I just went to install it and...wow... https://imgur.com/a/o6cSW https://imgur.com/a/o6cSW
  - yAnonymous 11y ago
    FileZilla are one of the few major projects who actually agree to this. Complain about it on their forums and you'll get a ban.
    - z92 11y ago
      FileZilla opted in for this service, and gets a percentage of the revenue generated by installing these malware.
  - logicallee 11y ago
    I thought you were going to show a virus result - the screen you showed is very unambiguously an opt-in screen, it even has the term "Accept" (as opposed to some other word like next or install) making you look at it - if the text said something else you would be very likely to just click it. The button at the left 'skip' is also clear about your other option (if it said 'cancel' it would sound like you're aborting installation.) I just don't see how this is a trick. There's not even a "default" option here, except for the Accept button being on the right. How can anyone possibly click the word "Accept" without even glancing at the text surrounding it - even a glance shows you the giant icon with the slogan "Mac Cleaner Clean Up Junk Files on Your Mac"? If you look at the bullet points, the first one clearly identifies what it does. So it's an opt-in screen. There's no default. The action word is "Accept" and the top bullet is about the additional software you would be installing, with a giant picture and caption showing the same thing. Or you can click "skip." This is above-board if you're going to do this sort of thing. Hell, given how above-board it is I might just click "Accept" in this case! (knowing that the devs opted into it as well.) It is very, very hard to read this as anything other than an opt-in screen. How can you be any less ambiguous?? EDIT: I didn't even notice, there is even grey small text that spells this out in completely unambiguous words! (Thank you for considering this offer from our advertiser...your choice does not affect installation of FileZilla.) I honestly don't even know that I would ask FileZilla to change anything whatsoever about this screen. It's great!

chanux 11y ago

lame (lib-lame :) ) I maintain a ffmpeg build and two of codec code destinations are SF. lame and opencore-amr.

lozf 11y ago
That reminds me - SoX is still there.

scrollaway 11y ago

We're in the process of fully removing ourselves from Sourceforge (LXDE). At work (Pootle), we're also moving our mailing lists away from Sourceforge. They were the last bit of SF we still used.

david-given 11y ago
Where to, if I may ask? I have some small projects I'm trying to get away from SF, and the mailing lists are the hardest bit --- finding mailing list providers which support bulk import isn't easy.
- scrollaway 11y ago
  Discourse is what we're currently looking at. They have very nice pricing options for both one-time-installs and continued hosting/support.
  - david-given 11y ago
    I looked at Discourse, and for the scale of my projects the pricing is unmanageable. Hosted by them it's $1000+ a year; hosted by me it's still $100+ a year ($200+ for the first year). Installing it and running it myself requires spinning up a moderately high-end docker instance, which I'm unwilling to do (not only does it cost money, but I've only just managed to stop running my own servers, and it's great).
    - scrollaway 11y ago
      Why don't you pick the one-time install ($100) on a server you already own? If your ML is low-traffic there's no reason it should cost you much more than a couple dollars a month.
      - david-given 11y ago
        They won't install it on my own server. The $100 one-time install fee installs it on a virtual server with Digital Ocean, which then costs $10 a month hosting.

chime 11y ago

I was surprised to find Keepass on it today.

japhyr 11y ago

I think NumPy still uses SourceForge.

celias 11y ago
and github - https://github.com/numpy/numpy https://github.com/numpy/numpy
- japhyr 11y ago
  This is great! It still looks like you have to go to SF for the windows installers; am I missing something? Do you know if there's any plans to move away from SourceForge? If I was in charge of the project, I'm not sure what I'd do. Maybe move all active development to github, but not abandon the SF repo to malware injection?

est 11y ago

homebrew?

Tehnix 11y ago
Aren't they on github? https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew
- lvillani 11y ago
  They used to use SourceForge to distribute bottles (binaries), but have switched to Bintray a while ago.
  - ashkulz 11y ago
    Do you know anyone else who uses bintray? I'm considering hosting downloads for the open source projects I maintain with them, but never heard of it much before.
    - lvillani 11y ago
      Off the top of my head I recall only Vagrant (https://bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant https://bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant)
wyclif 11y ago
For some odd reason, when I try to do 'brew upgrade tmux' I get the error 'tmux 1.9a already installed.' I want to upgrade to tmux2.

PuercoPop 11y ago

SBCL (one of the more popular CL implementations) is on sourceforge

gnurag 11y ago

I think FUSE is still on SourceForge.

axcocq 11y ago

MinGW-w64 I tried to find a mirror but couldn't. They link to Sourceforge from their official site.

lloeki 11y ago

ScummVM, Inkscape and wkhtmltopdf seem to be hosted there.

boundlessdreamz 11y ago
Not wkhtmltopdf - It is on github and has been for some time. https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf It was never on sourceforge as far as I know. It was in Google Code and then later github
- spdionis 11y ago
  Except that the download links on wkhtmltopdf.org send you on Sourceforge...
  - boundlessdreamz 11y ago
    Ah! I had forgotten about that
  - ashkulz 11y ago
    That will be changing in the near future. Still undecided about where the downloads will be hosted, though.
TomFrost 11y ago
ScummVM has been maintained on GitHub for a few years now: https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm The downloads are still on SF, though. That's unfortunate.

S4M 11y ago

Maxima (computer algebra system) is still using SourceForge: http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ It is one of the oldest software in the world.

Arkanosis 11y ago

7-Zip is still partially relying on SF, though the downloads seem to been moved elsewhere.

rbanffy 11y ago

Not everyone is into retrocomputing, but CDE is huge, if not very active.

nes350 11y ago

zsh: http://www.zsh.org/ http://www.zsh.org/

hugh4life 11y ago

The Lazarus IDE(Delphi Clone... 1,500 downloads a day) uses it for at least their downloads. If projects need to host binaries what are the best alternative to sourceforge?

nitrogen 11y ago
GitHub should work these days.

brianzelip 11y ago

git's OSX build is on sourceforge.

kbrosnan 11y ago

Keepass uses them for downloads, forums and issue tracking. It is often in the sf.net top 10 projects. http://keepass.info http://keepass.info

dewyatt 11y ago

GeoServer uses it to host their Windows installer and other binaries, etc