[bt-devel] Moving away from SourceForge

Jaak Ristioja jaak at ristioja.ee
Thu Jun 18 22:16:31 MST 2015


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Given the recent rumors of SourceForge taking over "abandoned"
projects, I'd rather not leave anything on SourceForge.net. Therefore
I think we must consider dropping all older downloads.

J


On 19.06.2015 06:35, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
> Hi Jaak,
> 
> One possibility would be to move / rebuild the last two or three 
> versions of BibleTime, and leave the rest on Sourceforge. That way
> they are still there if people want them, but it's not common to go
> much further back than the latest version.
> 
> Jon
> 
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:42 AM, Jaak Ristioja <jaak at ristioja.ee 
> <mailto:jaak at ristioja.ee>> wrote:
> 
> I know that one can attach binaries to releases/tags in Github.
> But what about our older releases and such? Does Github allow us to
> host those also? If yes, then where exactly can I find that feature
> in Github ?
> 
> Secondly, I just downloaded all of our files from SourceForge
> using
> 
> scp -r frs.sourceforge.net:/home/frs/project/b/bi/bibletime/ dest/
> 
> I guess I can verify the integrity of our source archives because
> I've checksummed them at each release, but what about the
> binaries?
> 
> J
> 
> On 18.06.2015 17:21, Greg Hellings wrote:
>> Github.com allows the distribution of both source tarballs and 
>> build artifacts. If our source is already there, no reason not
>> to have our releases hosted there as well.
> 
>> --Greg
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Jaak Ristioja <jaak at ristioja.ee
>> <mailto:jaak at ristioja.ee>> wrote: Hello!
> 
>> Due to recent issues with SourceForge taking over projects,
>> serving malware etc. becoming a bigger problem day by day and
>> browsers such as Google Chrome already blocking parts of
>> sourceforge.net <http://sourceforge.net>, we need to move our
>> downloads to somewhere else.
> 
>> The question is: where to?
> 
>> If anybody has a good answer to this question, please let us
>> know.
> 
> 
>> Blessings, J
> 
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