Re: [PD] Migrate away from Sourceforge?

2013-09-02 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
There's this: https://osuosl.org/ In terms of downloading binaries and hosting a repo, I'm not sure Pd is large enough to qualify. But it sounds like they have some nice virtualization infrastructure-- they even have stuff for powerpc, so we could do automated builds there for all the

Re: [PD] Migrate away from Sourceforge?

2013-08-31 Thread Dan Wilcox
True but I imagine alot of the older open issues could be closed so I doubt all of them need to be migrated, unless you wanted to keep a full history. But that's what the changelog is for anyway right? On Aug 30, 2013, at 8:31 PM, pd-list-requ...@iem.at wrote: Do you think that bitbucket or

Re: [PD] Migrate away from Sourceforge?

2013-08-31 Thread Simon Wise
On 31/08/13 06:46, Thomas Mayer wrote: I cannot vouch, that any commercial service will not do the same of course. Github e.g. stopped supporting downloads of binaries a few months ago. ISPs charge for bandwidth, in some places much more heavily than others, so for hosting lots of binaries

Re: [PD] Migrate away from Sourceforge?

2013-08-30 Thread Thomas Mayer
Hi, On 29.08.2013 15:53, day five wrote: Agree but what alternative do you suggest ? I just wanted to make the list aware of the problem. Perhaps sooner or later monetization is inevitable for all open source proyects. What hope is there for free software when global currency models are

Re: [PD] Migrate away from Sourceforge?

2013-08-30 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 08/30/2013 06:46 PM, Thomas Mayer wrote: Hi, On 29.08.2013 15:53, day five wrote: Agree but what alternative do you suggest ? I just wanted to make the list aware of the problem. Maybe github? Another point-- isn't Hans working on a decentralized thingy called Sparkle that's based on

Re: [PD] Migrate away from Sourceforge?

2013-08-29 Thread day five
Agree but what alternative do you suggest ? Perhaps sooner or later monetization is inevitable for all open source proyects. What hope is there for free software when global currency models are rapidly deteriorating. There are always those who would wish to capitalize on another's work much like

[PD] Migrate away from Sourceforge?

2013-08-27 Thread Thomas Mayer
Hello, Sourceforge's new owner tries to persuade top projects to use a closed source installer that includes spyware / adware: http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/ IMHO this in not a good place to host a true free software project any more. Any thoughts