The trackers on sourceforge are deprecated, and should in fact likely be closed, the relationship is that they are the same project (which should have been relatively clear since pidgin.sf.net redirects to pidgin.im).
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I'm a little confused. What's the relationship between this Pidgin sourceforge project and http://developer.pidgin.im?
Each site seems to have it's own bug tracker? Is the code different also?
The trackers on sourceforge are deprecated, and should in fact likely be closed, the relationship is that they are the same project (which should have been relatively clear since pidgin.sf.net redirects to pidgin.im).