Hi, You might have seen news about sourceforge.net hijacking projects or project names to distribute adware (or worse). Following this, several projects have started to move away from sourceforge. Since we use it, moving away from it is a question that we must bring up (this is not a vote thread).
As of today, we are not moving away from sourceforge.net nor planning a move. We are merely assessing the current and possible future situations. We haven't have troubles ourselves so far. First, a recap of what has happened. For several years, sourceforge.net has proposed projects to wrap their installers in installers for adware. Revenue is shared between SF and the project. This has been accepted by Filezilla at least and the blame lies on both filezilla and sourceforge (one for thinking about it, the other for accepting it). Two weeks ago, the GIMP people found out that a Windows installer, that wasn't updated anymore but was still available for download, had been wrapped in the same kind of adware installer without any consent from them. [1] A number of projects have since then been complaining about similar things too. One notable is nmap. To the best of my knowledge, the issue is different and is actually about large "DOWNLOAD THIS"-style ads in the download page, i.e. much bigger than the actual button. Recap done. This isn't a very fun topic but as I said above, it must be brought up. ************************************************ Should the mingw-w64 project seek to move entirely or partially away from Sourceforge? If at least one service should be moved away from it, how can its features continue to be provided in the future? ************************************************ Currently the website is a dokuwiki, hosted elsewhere, with a domain name upon which we have full control. Since it is a wiki, we don't have a use for a separate service. The mailing-lists, file downloads, bug tracker, forums and git hosting are all services provided by sourceforge. Apart from the forums, all of these are heavily used (and even the forums have seen an increase in usage recently). It probably makes no sense to move anything if the file downloads don't move. Sourceforge is one of the few services providing all of these for free. Please answer with your thoughts on the matter (but again, no vote, no "+1" or similar) and how the services could be replaced. [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2015-May/msg00144.html -- Adrien Nader ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
