On the subject of migrating away from Source Forge for hosting
installation artifacts, I just noticed that SourceForge has the option
to automatically pull in the artifacts from GitHub releases.  This might
simplify transitioning to GitHub while still using SourceForge as a backup.


On 2018-03-06 01:32 PM, Torben Barsballe wrote:
> *
>
> SourceForge had outages / reduced service during the week of the
> GeoTools 19-beta / GeoServer 2.13-beta release.
>
>
> This caused:
>
>  *
>
>     Delays on mailing list discussions and announcements (including
>     the release announcement),
>
>  *
>
>     Loss of all download statistics for the release, so we don't know
>     how many people are downloading / testing it.
>
>
> Once again, this brings up the topic of whether we should consider
> something a bit more reliable than sourceforge for hosting mailing
> lists and release artifacts. There is a preexisting migration proposal
> here:
> *https://github.com/geotools/geotools/wiki/SourceForge-exit-strategy*
>
> **
>
> *One suggestion was to start by migrating the GeoTools project (As it
> is a lower-risk migration, given that most people get there artifacts
> via maven), and use that to determine feasibility of migrating the
> GeoServer project.*
>
> **
>
> *Any thoughts?*
>
> **
>
> *Torben*
>
> *
>
>
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