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Hello Drew.
No we have no plans of leaving SourceForge for now as it does everything we need and too much trouble to support both github and SourceForge.
Thanks for the response @sconway. I strongly recommend considering migration. I think it is vital for the future of the project. I don't think it's worth comparing github to sourceforge, let alone listing the endless additional features you'd have at your disposal, because there's no story. But the point is, you would find an incomparably more active community that could help keep the project going. I am sure there are many people who would like to contribute but knowing that the project is still on sourceforge they have turned off their desire...
OK so I am a leech/unlikely to push - but it is taking me more the 20 mins to find the 5.6 source zip - whereas most github projects have easy source (zip) downloads. What I am trying to say is where is the source zip download for 5.6? This is it https://sourceforge.net/code-snapshots/git/o/op/opencsv/source.git/opencsv-source-5d7247adc50e465c9664becf53e9091d8b9f4572.zip for auditability it would be nice to have a permanent link though... That pom.xml is marked: <version>5.5.3-SNAPSHOT</version> . I can diff with maven central sources ? and check the only diff is version number in the pom.xml. How can I get liquibase to use your competitor or write your functionality?
Last edit: Turloch O'Tierney 2022-05-02
Turloch - If you have to have the exact 5.6 sources and the git tags/branches are too much of a pain (understandable) then you can find the sources in either the files section of sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencsv/files/opencsv/5.6%20sources/) or you can go to the maven central repository (https://search.maven.org/artifact/com.opencsv/opencsv/5.6/jar) click on the download dropdown and pick sources.jar. That is the source files that was used to create the 5.6 jar and I upload them to both maven central and sourceforge at the time I upload the jar.
Thank you for your direction, having a look now.
Closing this request.... for now. Right now sourceforge does everything we need and would be far more work to port everything over than any gains made for the move.
Scott, please reconsider this. No one uses sourceforge these days that care about open source. Every single thing you have here can move to github. I can help you. I've been on github for 13 years now. There are issues with this library and I can guarantee no one reports them due to it being here. Whatever you need I want to help. Lets get this on github and start releasing more frequently and get rid of the legacy baggage this currently contains. Even if you don't port everything, just port the code and add readme to point back here. Its that easy.
Find me at github at https://github.com/hazendaz so you know you have someone with great experience that can help get this over.
Hello Jeremy - thanks for the offer but so far sourceforge has done everything we needed so there is really no need to move. I actually use github for my personal projects (though nowhere near the number of commits you have) but opencsv started on sourceforge in 2005 and there are millions of bookmarks in browsers in the world for opencsv.sourceforge.net and there is no need to cause such a disruption because a newer, sexier developer platform comes out, because there will always be a newer, sexier platform.
When sourceforge shuts down, actually stops working, or has real issues that effects the keeps git pull/push from working then I will definitely reconsider this.