Updated Terms Of Service, feature deprecation, and changes to the Donation System
Topics:
1. Terms of Service changes
2. Feature deprecation notice: Document Manager & Task Manager
3. Donation service changes
1. Terms of Service changes:
In connection with ongoing improvements to SourceForge.net, we are in the process of updating our terms and conditions of use. We believe that the new terms are better organized and simpler than the current terms. The new terms will not take effect until October 19, 2009, so there is ample time to correct errors and we therefore encourage input from our users. Send all feedback to sfnet_ops@corp.sourceforge.com with “ToS” as the message summary.
2. Feature removal notice: Document Manager & Task Manager:
We are announcing the planned removal of a couple of aging tools we have on the site, Document Manager (DocMan), and Task Manager. Our Hosted Apps offerings of Trac, MediaWiki (for documentation) and TaskFreak! (tasks) replace these nicely. These two facilities will be removed from the site on 2009-10-19.
We will make a dump of your data available at that time as well as offering a migration process to one of the Hosted Apps facilities (Trac, MediaWiki [for docs] and TaskFreak! [tasks]). This data will also be portable.
3. Donation service changes:
Finally, SourceForge.net has had a donation system in place so that projects could accept financial assistance from users who just loved what the software developers made did for them. We are stepping out of the middle of the process on on 2009-10-12. Up to now, we have taken a small administrative fee for each donation. The new process will only incur fees from PayPal.
This change in process will no longer offer the projects and developers the ability to give a “cut” of a donation to charitable organizations.
Feedback, questions or concerns may be directed to our support team.
Best regards,
Daniel Hinojosa, Sr. Manager Support, SourceForge.net
Why did you make this change? i.e.
>> This change in process will no longer offer the projects and developers
>> the ability to give a “cut” of a donation to charitable organizations.
This could provide substantive as in non-trivial impetus to leave SourceForge.
“We will make a dump of your data available at that time as well as offering a migration process to one of the Hosted Apps facilities (Trac, MediaWiki [for docs] and TaskFreak! [tasks]). This data will also be portable.”
I can’t find any pointer to the dump of my project’s data. I also can’t find any information about the migration process. Where are they?
Sorry, I later saw the announcement from 19 October answering my questions. You may reject my comment.