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Interesting is that Sourceforge doesn't even host the downloads themself, but just links to mirrors like HEANET. The mirrors should refuse to add any new binari
by frik 11y ago
Interesting is that Sourceforge doesn't even host the downloads themself, but just links to mirrors like HEANET. The mirrors should refuse to add any new binaries from Sourceforge and we need a community driven website that coordinates open source download binary mirrors (based on what SF uses at the moment), and Archive.org/ArchiveTeam/etc should backup all SVN/CVS/etc repositories on Sorceforge, and Google then should remove them from their index or flag them as adware/scam. But there is a risk that lot's of valuable source code of abandoned projects get lost that is still very valuable. So a source code repo backup is important.
It's sad what has turned out of the former great Slashdot and Sourceforge websites.
[Edit: fixed typo]
- jbk 11y agoWhich is why, for VLC, we contacted ourselves all the mirrors (+ quite a few new ones), and built our own new mirroring system, that is faster (and more reliable) than the SF one. The mirrors had no problem with that, since we were already the biggest bandwidth consumer, through SF. Why do the mirrors offer this bandwidth? Well, it depends. Some are universities, some need bandwidth up/down balance (because of interconnections contracts), some are just nice, and some get paid to do it.
- tokenizerrr 11y agoPaid by who?
- psykovsky 11y agoLove your typo. =) I suppose you wanted to write abandoned projects, but abdomen projects has a nice ring to it.
- frik 11y ago:) (mobile device auto correction)
- toomuchtodo 11y ago> and Archive.org/ArchiveTeam/etc should backup all SVN/CVS/etc repositories on Sorceforge ArchiveTeam is in the process of putting SF (~20TB) into cold storage.