Re: [Gramps-devel] SF download wrapper (was: git and 4.0.2 release)

[Tim L. <guy...@gm...>]

John Ralls-2 wrote
> On Nov 8, 2013, at 12:42 AM, Benny Malengier <

> benny.malengier@

> > wrote:
> 
>> Nick, All,
>> 
>> Did you see this:
>> http://www.gimp.org/ news: 
>> GIMP Windows Installers move from Sourceforge to ftp.gimp.org
>> 
>> Apparently SF starts to use a download program for some downloads. 
>> If this is the case for Gramps, I would not be ok with this. At the
>> moment it seems for Gramps still the exe is downloaded, but the adds on
>> the download page start to be hard to distinguish from normal content. 
>> 
> 
> I think The GIMP team might have over-reacted a bit, and the author of the
> blog post [1] that they  refer to in that announcement certainly
> overstated his case. A more reasoned discussion [2] by one of the admins
> from Portable sheds a bit more light, as does the original SF announcement
> [3].
> 
> The most important thing is that it's opt-in on the part of the project,
> so there's no risk at present of our installer being contaminated in this
> way unless we agree to it. I certainly hope that we wouldn't.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> [1]
> http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/
> [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6262347
> [3]
> https://sourceforge.net/blog/today-we-offer-devshare-beta-a-sustainable-way-to-fund-open-source-software/

GIMP may have over-egged their comments in the blog, but I don't think they
have overreacted in moving away from Sourceforge.

Yes, I read the more reasoned discussion in [2]. I agree with the comment:
"for the record, i think this is a bad move on SourceForge's part. it's
misleading, it's abusive of user's goodwill and trust, and most users are
going to accidentally install these toolbars that they don't want or need.
[but just because it's a bad idea and it's intrusive and rude, doesn't make
it malicious.]".

I don't want to be associated with something that abuses user's goodwill and
trust.

I think we should move away from Sourceforge.


(I understand that Github does support downloads in the from of 'releases'.
I would not support Google adverts on a Download page. How does Gimp fund
their approach?).

Tim.



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