Re: [Lmuse-developer] Sourceforge has turned evil.

[Robert J. <spa...@gm...>]

Hi Florian,

2013/8/27 Florian Jung <fl...@wi...>:
> Dear MusE-Team,
>
> I always wanted to move over to GitHub, I already felt a faint dislike
> against sourceforge, but could not name it.
>
> Now I can.
>
> http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/
>
> 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 installs actually more stuff than
> you want.
>
> In particular, it adds ad- and spyware to your computer, e.g. in form of
> the Ask.com toolbar, "registry cleaners" etc., if you not explicitly
> decline this (the average user usually only clicks on the big green
> "Install" button). I verified this, it's true. And the installer is
> digitally signed by Ask.com, most users won't even notice.
>
> Alarmed by this, I browsed around on sourceforge.net a bit, and found
> more things which I didn't expect, like misleading ads and more
> manipulated installers (without asking the project maintainers!).
>

Ok, that doesn't sound like fair play at all, I agree.

<..>
> I'm doing that herewith. I hope you agree with me that we should move
> MusE over to github (or bitbucket or whatever) as soon as possible.
>
> I do not want to support a platform which feels like taking such
> measures, and I will volunteer to do the migration to, let's say, GitHub
> + muse-sequencer.org.
>
> -- flo.

I'm not against moving to github but we need to verify that all
features we depend on are possible to recreate without too much
hassle.
Also, Joachim talked to me the other day about moving the wiki over to
github, they have some new wiki framework built on git that apparently
accepts mediawiki (which we use) pages. It's intriguing, don't know
how well it works yet.

So, what we use are (off the top of my head).
- source code repository (SF)
- file download service (SF)
- ticket system (SF)
- mailing lists (SF)
- forum (SF)
- home page/wiki
- ?

Last we discussed this I recall file download was a void for github
atleast, don't know about the others.
Can we solve this without too much hassle?

Regards,
Robert