Hi Tim, 2013/9/10 Tim E. Real <[email protected]>: > On September 9, 2013 06:24:17 PM Florian Jung wrote: >> Dear users and contributors of the MusE-Project, >> >> I herewith announce my *boycott* of the *SourceForge.net* platform. >> >> I think that SourceForge has turned into an evil beast of >> monetarisation, and they did not stop at the borders of morality. It's >> well-explained in this blogpost: >> >> http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-falle >> n/ >> >> 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 tries to fool you into installing >> *adware* and *spyware* on your computer. (Actually, they do even more >> unethical stuff, but that's beyond the scope of this mail.) >> >> I do not want to support this treacherous behaviour. >> >> >> >> In the past week, I have been busy evaluating alternatives for hosting >> the MusE project. I came to the result that it will be *no problem* at >> all to leave SourceForge, and I strongly encourage you, the community, >> and the development team, to migrate away. >> >> Repo, Bugtracker: -> GitHub (I have a script for that) >> Forum: -> muse-sequencer.org (I succeeded at this on a testing box.) >> Mailing list: either muse-sequencer.org, or a 3rd party ML hoster. >> >> >> >> I have not stopped nor do I want to stop developing MusE, because I >> think it is the best FLOSS Sequencer available, and I see a huge lot >> of potential in MusE. >> However, I do not want potential to be suffocated by allowing Dice >> Inc. to abuse *your* trust in the same way they did with FileZilla and >> others. Instead, I wish to see MusE on an open platform that >> encourages more developers to contribute to this project. >> >> If you are interested in my current efforts, follow me on GitHub: >> (And if you feel like you can help, fork me!) >> >> https://github.com/Windfisch/muse >> >> I have two branches of interest: audiomsg_overhaul and audiostreams. >> >> The *audiomsg_overhaul* branch is mainly technical, some code >> improvements. But it will make more things "undo"-able (e.g. selecting >> events.); it should be pretty stable, >> >> *and it would be a great help to me if you could test this branch*. >> >> >> The *audiostreams* branch is quite tasty: It will allow you to >> time-stretch imported or recorded waves, so changing the tempo map >> will not rip WAVE and MIDI out of sync any more :) [still in >> development] >> >> >> >> >> But let me quote the article I linked above: >> "If you’re a developer or contributor to a SourceForge project, please >> ask them to move to a new project host (there are several). And cease >> all further involvement until it’s complete." >> > > Was this really necessary? Dude, you could've just said > "Hi, we're looking at moving to GitHub. Also here's my stuff..." > >> My decision is final and irrevocable. >> I ask you to please respect it by not pulling code from my repo on >> GitHub and pushing this code of mine back to sourceforge. > > Come on, how "open" is that? And you posted to MusE users ? > > Anyway I registered with GH. > > Is everyone here in agreement about moving MusE from SF to GitHub? > Transferring of all of our services seems to have been worked out.
I'm sorry for not paying enough attention. Florians announcement was a bit dramatic but he has convinced me atleast that moving to github is a good idea and may have revitalising aspects. > > Will all of the SF branches soon be transferred to a new Public/MusE ? A question for you Florian? Regards, Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How ServiceNow helps IT people transform IT departments: 1. Consolidate legacy IT systems to a single system of record for IT 2. Standardize and globalize service processes across IT 3. Implement zero-touch automation to replace manual, redundant tasks http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=51271111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lmuse-developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lmuse-developer
