[privoxy-devel] Leaving SF (was: SF ticket regressions)

[Fabian K. <fk...@fa...>]

Fabian Keil <fk...@fa...> wrote:

> Daniel Hinojosa <dhi...@sl...> wrote:
> 
> > I'm the SourceForge Community Manager. Is the no-JS editing on tickets the
> > only blocker for you all to stay on SourceForge, or are there other
> > reasons?
> 
> There is no official and complete list of reasons to leave
> SourceForge and no decision to leave has been made yet either.
> 
> The TODO list item merely reads:
> 
> 53) Find a more reliable hoster. Involves finding out what our
>     requirements are and which SF alternatives fulfil them.
>     It would probably also make sense to look into what other
>     projects did when migrating away from SF.
> 
> My personal impression is that privacy and security aren't a
> priority for SourceForge and thus its not a good fit for a
> supposedly privacy-enhancing proxy like Privoxy.
> 
> The unnecessary JavaScript requirement is not the first service
> degradation we've experienced and I doubt that it will be the last
> one.
> 
> Another obvious privacy issue with the new design is that one no
> longer gets essential CSS unless one allows requests to third parties
> that are colluding with the NSA (Google).
> 
> If you check the bug reports I'm sure you'll find various other
> privacy issues that have been ignored. I stopped reporting such
> issues to SF years ago, because I could see no indication that
> anyone cares.
> 
> For example it took SF weeks to fix an obvious regression that
> caused login data including passwords to be transmitted unencrypted.

Two months later none of the issues mentioned above have been addressed
and there hasn't even been an commitment to address them eventually.

Therefore I think we should try to migrate away from SF before the
end of May.

The last months I have been somewhat preoccupied but I intend to
spend more time on Privoxy in the near future again and consider
the migration one of the more pressing issues.

Please let me know if there are any objections, preferably before
the end of April.

Fabian