[simspark-devel] Moving to a kinder project hosting service?!

[Hedayat V. <hed...@ai...>]

Hi all,

As you might know, SourceForge has recently blocked access to its 
contents (downloading released files) to Iranian users (and users of 
other countries under sanctions by USA). And Iranians should use 
workarounds to access these files.


For a long time, SourceForge has been blocking such users from logging 
in into sf.net servers and being able to contribute, and as a result we 
were forced to use workarounds to be able to contribute to it. This 
problem created difficulties for Iranian contributors (including 
myself), but since it didn't affect users, I could live with it.


But considering the large number of Iranians participating in RoboCup, 
the recent act of sf.net to block Iranians is really irritating; and is 
IMHO (notice that I'm Iranian ;) ) unacceptable specially that it is not 
a US product!


So, I would like to know your opinions about moving 
simspark/rcssserver3d to a different project hosting service (e.g. 
BerliOS, SourceForge.jp) which doesn't impose such restrictions (and 
preferably is not a USA based service provider).


As a side note, IF we decided to move to a new project hosting service 
provider, we could also consider moving from using Subversion to Git, 
which seems to be better than Subversion in many ways. But I'm not a 
hard proponent of this move, specially that it'll need contributors to 
get used to a new system. Even without moving to git, it is possible to 
use git-svn by those who prefer it. We might even consider other 
versioning systems. Anyway, this is not a priority at all! So if you are 
unsure, we could remain with SVN happily!


Thanks Anyway,

Hedayat