How about rsync to OSGeo? We can open en a trac ticket to ask

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Jody Garnett


On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM Torben Barsballe <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Following on from today's PSC meeting discussion, I can save the data at
> least.
> Uploading to GitHub looks like it'll be a difficult manual task - with no
> upload API, this may not be automatable.
>
> Cheers,
> Torben
>
> On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 11:25 PM Jody Garnett <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> SourceForge sent a request if February to remove large files with zero
>> recent downloads.
>>
>> This project is using a large amount of storage.
>>
>> We need your help removing a lot of your old releases.
>>> Please remove as much as you can of your old releases and unused files
>>> within 14 days.
>>>
>>> You can use this tool to help you identify the files that aren't getting
>>> many downloads and take up a lot of space.
>>> https://sourceforge.net/p/geotools/admin/files/large_files
>>>
>>> We are letting you know so you can choose which files to remove.
>>> Please be aware that if we don't see any difference after 14 days, we
>>> will have to remove all the files and folders with 0 or a few monthly
>>> downloads ourselves.
>>>
>>
>> We actually depend on this historical record as our commit history is not
>> 100% complete (due to svn / git etc...) so sent the following reply:
>>
>> This is a long term project used for a lot of scientific and mapping
>>> applications.
>>>
>>> Since it is such an established project it is our intension to keep the
>>> historical artifacts online. Because we use the maven build system we
>>> cannot always be sure that keeping just the source code is sufficient to
>>> rebuild prior configurations (as their dependencies may not remain
>>> available).
>>>
>>> I look forward to your response.
>>>
>>
>> They have now sent a second warning:
>>
>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This is a reminder that you must clean up files on your project.
>>>
>>> We are giving you an additional 14 days and then will begin removing
>>> files ourselves.
>>> Please remove as much as you can of your old releases and unused files
>>> within 14 days.
>>>
>>> We need to see a substantial amount removed.
>>>
>>
>> With this in mind what do we wish to do?
>>
>>
>>    - Anyone wish to write a script to create tags in GitHub, and
>>    transfer the assets over?
>>
>>
>> - -
>> Jody Garnett
>>
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