libjpeg-turbo-users

[DRC <dco...@us...>]

I'm not sure whether any of my previous messages regarding the 
SourceForge outage got through, so forgive me if any of this is old news.

Let me start by saying that I think the rumors of SourceForge's demise 
have been greatly exaggerated.  They have certainly engaged in some 
questionable advertising practices in the past (as have some other 
high-profile web sites we all know and love), but they have largely 
owned up to their mistakes and have taken steps to prevent them in the 
future.  I also feel that they handled this outage in the best way they 
could.  I've been using SourceForge since 2004-- you know, back when 
they were pretty much in exactly the same position as GitHub is now. 
I've been around this block enough times to be wary of jumping onto the 
latest & greatest platform just because it's the latest & greatest.

That being said, while I have had no major issues with SourceForge 
(before now), this outage made me finally admit that the advantages of a 
DVCS (such as git) far outweigh the pain of learning a new system.  To 
that end, I took advantage of the downtime to get familiar enough with 
Git that I can be productive with it.  When our subversion repository 
came back online yesterday, I immediately started migrating our code to 
GitHub.  I could just as easily have migrated it to SourceForge's Git or 
Hg servers, but I am a believer in using the best tool for the job. 
Part of maintaining a healthy open source community is making it easy 
for developers to contribute, and GitHub's popularity and rich 
collaboration tools make it a clear winner in that department.

The code migration is now complete, and you can find our main repository at:
https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo

Supporting repositories (build scripts, etc.) can be found at
https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo

Please update any sandboxes you may have.  The subversion repository is 
frozen and will eventually be decommissioned.

The following provides a comprehensive list of project services and 
where to find them, going forward:

-- Code hosting:  GitHub only 
(https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo)

-- Issue/feature tracking:  Either GitHub 
(https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/issues) or SourceForge 
(https://sourceforge.net/p/libjpeg-turbo/_list/tickets)
    There are advantages and disadvantages to both (for instance, you 
can't attach files with GitHub), so for the time being at least, use 
whichever one you prefer.  I have moved a few high-priority feature 
requests to GitHub, but all other items are still on SourceForge.  If, 
at some point in the future, the SourceForge tracker stops being used or 
the GitHub tracker improves its feature set, I will consider freezing 
the SF tracker.

-- Patches:  Either GitHub 
(https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/pulls) or SourceForge 
(https://sourceforge.net/p/libjpeg-turbo/patches/)
    If, at some point in the future, the SourceForge tracker stops being 
used, I will consider freezing it.

-- Official Releases:  SourceForge 
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/libjpeg-turbo/files/)
    My automated pre-release and release scripts are heavily tied to the 
SourceForge file release system, I like certain features of that system 
(such as the statistics it provides), and there are a lot of links to 
those files out there, so at least for now, I will continue using 
SourceForge to distribute official releases.  I will, however, sign all 
RPMs and DEBs on that site with my GPG key and all Windows installers 
with my code signing certificate, in order to ease any concerns about 
binary tampering.  Look for a follow-up message announcing the 
completion of that project (SourceForge has not yet restored the file 
upload and SSH features, so access to the file release system is 
currently read-only.)
    GitHub includes metadata and automatically-generated tarballs for 
all of the release tags 
(https://github.com/libjpeg-turbo/libjpeg-turbo/releases), but these 
tarballs have not
been processed with autoconf, so they should not be considered "official."

-- Web site:  hosted on an external web server 
(http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org)
    All of the links mentioned in this message can be found there.

-- Mailing lists:  SourceForge 
(https://sourceforge.net/p/libjpeg-turbo/mailman/)

-- Discussion forums:  SourceForge 
(https://sourceforge.net/p/libjpeg-turbo/discussion/)


As always, please send me any questions or concerns you may have.

DRC