On 08/28/2013 10:14 PM, Robert Jonsson wrote: > Hi Florian, > > 2013/8/27 Florian Jung <[email protected]>: >> Dear MusE-Team, >> >> I always wanted to move over to GitHub, I already felt a faint dislike >> against sourceforge, but could not name it. >> >> Now I can. >> >> http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/ >> >> tl;dr: sourceforge is now owned by a company named Dice, and have >> started to abuse their users' trust. When you want to download >> windows-installers from certain sf.net-hosted projects, you're now >> getting a "drive by" download, which installs actually more stuff than >> you want. >> >> In particular, it adds ad- and spyware to your computer, e.g. in form of >> the Ask.com toolbar, "registry cleaners" etc., if you not explicitly >> decline this (the average user usually only clicks on the big green >> "Install" button). I verified this, it's true. And the installer is >> digitally signed by Ask.com, most users won't even notice. >> >> Alarmed by this, I browsed around on sourceforge.net a bit, and found >> more things which I didn't expect, like misleading ads and more >> manipulated installers (without asking the project maintainers!). >> > > Ok, that doesn't sound like fair play at all, I agree. > > <..> >> I'm doing that herewith. I hope you agree with me that we should move >> MusE over to github (or bitbucket or whatever) as soon as possible. >> >> I do not want to support a platform which feels like taking such >> measures, and I will volunteer to do the migration to, let's say, GitHub >> + muse-sequencer.org. >> >> -- flo. > > I'm not against moving to github but we need to verify that all > features we depend on are possible to recreate without too much > hassle. > Also, Joachim talked to me the other day about moving the wiki over to > github, they have some new wiki framework built on git that apparently > accepts mediawiki (which we use) pages. It's intriguing, don't know > how well it works yet. > > So, what we use are (off the top of my head). > - source code repository (SF)
we move our git repo to github as its new main repo > - file download service (SF) florian pointed me to this: https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software > - ticket system (SF) we use the one from github > - mailing lists (SF) we stay on sf.net for the moment since i don't have a clue what could be better. i like the thunderbird's 'news group' integration of it > - forum (SF) good question, maybe we move it to the muse-sequencer.org root server as florian asked > - home page/wiki we migrate the page (one html file) and our mediawiki to github > > Last we discussed this I recall file download was a void for github > atleast, don't know about the others. > Can we solve this without too much hassle? yes we can! ... oh men, where did i hear this last time and it never happened? > Regards, > Robert > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! > Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies > and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step > tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58040911&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lmuse-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmuse-developer
