Re: [Fetchmail-users] Better home for fetchmail than Sourceforge?

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 15.09.2014 um 18:47 schrieb grarpamp:

> I meant to suggest back then finding a home for the lists that
> ran mailman+pipermail gzip mboxes. Once found, all the past
> archives you hold could be loaded into it. They could also be
> put up as a tarball, optionally updated quarterly or some such
> if no mm+pm host can be found. Even rsync would work.

I would have liked to find a Mailman list hosting service that is
affordable, but everything I found back then was more expensive than
virtual root servers...

sourceforge.net had the additional advantage that I had already set up a
fetchmail project years ago, when I was unhappy about BerliOS support
and SF.net support was responsive back then.

Things changed since then, everyone knows it took several weeks for
SF.net to import the mailing lists, BerliOS shut down, but yet
sourceforge.net allowed some continuity for downloads, website hosting
and, in theory, tickets.

> Github, or a local bugzilla, trac or request tracker would probably
> be better than SF for ticketing. Export and import would be nice.

Github has too unstable and too inconcise a user interface for the
uninitiated.  Too many high-profile features hidden behind an innocuous
icon.  I know my way around the current interface, but I find it too
light for casual users.

> Sourceforge seems to be stuck in the 'first generation' while
> better options have sprung up around them.

Which one in particular do you propose, especially with a reasonable
response time for support and as a complete offering?

I'm happy to consider alternatives, but I'm not too easily satisfied
when the status quo mostly works and is widely known.