Re: [Lmuse-developer] [Lmuse-user] Boycott of SourceForge.net

[Tim E. R. <ter...@ro...>]

On September 9, 2013 06:24:17 PM Florian Jung wrote:
> Dear users and contributors of the MusE-Project,
> 
> I herewith announce my *boycott* of the *SourceForge.net* platform.
> 
> I think that SourceForge has turned into an evil beast of
> monetarisation, and they did not stop at the borders of morality. It's
> well-explained in this blogpost:
> 
> http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-falle
> n/
> 
> tl;dr: sourceforge is now owned by a company named Dice, and have
> started to abuse their users' trust. When you want to download
> windows-installers from certain sf.net-hosted projects, you're now
> getting a "drive by" download, which tries to fool you into installing
> *adware* and *spyware* on your computer. (Actually, they do even more
> unethical stuff, but that's beyond the scope of this mail.)
> 
> I do not want to support this treacherous behaviour.
> 
> 
> 
> In the past week, I have been busy evaluating alternatives for hosting
> the MusE project. I came to the result that it will be *no problem* at
> all to leave SourceForge, and I strongly encourage you, the community,
> and the development team, to migrate away.
> 
> Repo, Bugtracker: -> GitHub (I have a script for that)
> Forum: -> muse-sequencer.org (I succeeded at this on a testing box.)
> Mailing list: either muse-sequencer.org, or a 3rd party ML hoster.
> 
> 
> 
> I have not stopped nor do I want to stop developing MusE, because I
> think it is the best FLOSS Sequencer available, and I see a huge lot
> of potential in MusE.
> However, I do not want potential to be suffocated by allowing Dice
> Inc. to abuse *your* trust in the same way they did with FileZilla and
> others. Instead, I wish to see MusE on an open platform that
> encourages more developers to contribute to this project.
> 
> If you are interested in my current efforts, follow me on GitHub:
> (And if you feel like you can help, fork me!)
> 
> https://github.com/Windfisch/muse
> 
> I have two branches of interest: audiomsg_overhaul and audiostreams.
> 
> The *audiomsg_overhaul* branch is mainly technical, some code
> improvements. But it will make more things "undo"-able (e.g. selecting
> events.); it should be pretty stable,
> 
> *and it would be a great help to me if you could test this branch*.
> 
> 
> The *audiostreams* branch is quite tasty: It will allow you to
> time-stretch imported or recorded waves, so changing the tempo map
> will not rip WAVE and MIDI out of sync any more :)   [still in
> development]
> 
> 
> 
> 
> But let me quote the article I linked above:
> "If you’re a developer or contributor to a SourceForge project, please
> ask them to move to a new project host (there are several).  And cease
> all further involvement until it’s complete."
> 

Was this really necessary? Dude, you could've just said 
"Hi, we're looking at moving to GitHub. Also here's my stuff..."

> My decision is final and irrevocable.
> I ask you to please respect it by not pulling code from my repo on
> GitHub and pushing this code of mine back to sourceforge.

Come on, how "open" is that? And you posted to MusE users ?

Anyway I registered with GH.

Is everyone here in agreement about moving MusE from SF to GitHub? 
Transferring of all of our services seems to have been worked out.

Will all of the SF branches soon be transferred to a new Public/MusE ?

Tim.