Re: We need to talk about SourceForge

[Oliver Heimlich]

On 22.07.2015 18:06, Nir Krakauer wrote:
> With SF "code repositories are not currently available", it seems like
> it would be worth making moving Octave-Forge a higher priority.

The repositories are back online, but the shell access still isn't 
working and thus there is no administrative access to the website, which 
currently prevents package releases.

Also, it looks like SourceForge shall now be sold off by the current 
owner [1].

I have said nothing about the “SourceForge is bad topic” recently, 
because I do not want to follow the public hysteria on the topic. I do 
not see any cheap third-party alternatives that provide a place for 
multiple hg repositories, a website and downloads. Also the really bad 
stuff (from the Gimp project) didn't affect the Octave Forge project 
directly, because the project is neither abandoned nor does it provide 
binaries. All I have seen was a low quality hosting service with regular 
smaller outages (before the big crash).

However, now I think that SourceForge is going through even harder times 
because it has an indefinite future!

Are there any (fixed) plans for alternatives already? Couldn't we afford 
a hosting service for the package releases and self-host the repositories?

Oliver


[1] 
https://sourceforge.net/blog/dhi-group-inc-statement-on-plans-to-sell-slashdot-media/