Re: [Gramps-devel] Should our hosting be on Sourceforge (not quite GNU) or Savannah?

[Benny M. <ben...@gm...>]

FSF is one very specific voice.

As long as sourceforge is good for us, I see no problem. Note that we really
only use them for subversion and the download service, so we would have
almost no migration cost.

I can imagine sourceforge has quite some bills to pay, so they need a way to
generate income, we cannot blame them for that. Savannah looks dead to me
(broken links everywhere), and launchpad is a really cluttered interface I
(as an IT person) still don't understand how to navigate. Anyway, launchpad
has also a commercial company behind it paying the bills at the moment, so
they might do things like adding commercials in mailings lists also some
time in the future.

Benny

2010/7/2 Duncan Lithgow <dun...@gm...>

> In the latest issue of the Free Software Foundation's bulletin (Issue
> 16, May 2010) there is an interesting article about the
> appropriateness of using Sourceforge to host GNU projects. They make
> the point that by keeping their service behind a web interface they
> avoid being asked for the code they use. SourceForge is not running on
> GNU software since they were acquired by VA Software who forked the
> code off in two branches, free and not free.
>
> I thought that this might be something to consider and discuss. There
> is an article on the Savannah blog at
> http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/sathere is an interesting article about
> the
> appropriateness of using Sourceforge to host GNU projects. They make
> the point that by keeping their service behind a web interface they
> avoid being asked for the code they use. SourceForge is not running on
> GNU software since they were acquired by VA Software who forked the
> code off in two branvannah
>
> Just a thought, Duncan
>
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