In light of the recent activities of Dice Holdings trying to monetize the website it purchased in September 2012, Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports
The admin of the popular NotePad++ text editor announced [June 15] that the project would leave SourceForge
[...] The project will use Github as the development hub for Notepad++ exclusively.
[...] tmux, nmap, [and] VLC for instance [are also trying] to get Sourceforge to remove [their] projects from the site
In the comments, Oxa June notes that Pale Moon is looking to move away.
In addition, Softpedia notes that WINE is migrating away.
Related: SourceForge Using Mirrored Projects and Including Adware
Slashdot Burying Stories About Dice-Owned SourceForge
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:05PM
Jesus, it's sad. It's like watching a good friend die of brain cancer.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:08PM
At least we can preserve the "memories" (code).
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @06:49PM
Seriously though, if it hasn't already been done there, somebody needs to write a script to archive the website, or get someone to leak the sourceforge project db, or ideally, backups from the CVS, SVN, and GIT codebase migrations. There are a lot of projects that were on there that have been lost to the depths of internet history and many fixes and descriptions of gotchas for code dating back to the pre-millenial era of the internet.
This stuff needs to be preserved so someday it will be available to those researching the proper operation of legacy codebases, or the software that relied on them.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Thursday June 18 2015, @01:24PM
This is a plague that affects not just SF but the Internet in general...know how many times I have looked for a fix to a specific issue with an older piece of hardware to only find out every. single. link. goes back to something like MegaUpload or Rapidshit? Sadly all those "5Mb here, 10Mb there" files add up to some serious storage costs but we really do need a "Wayback Machine" for not just pages but the files they contain,because we are losing a metric shitton of data every year and most of it? Will never be replaced.
I know I'm seriously considering either doing what we used to at the shop I worked at in the 90s, which is fill a case with drives and just download every single driver and fix I think I could possibly use, or use this new BR burner I got to start archiving as many tools and fixes as I can. On that note...anybody have exp with BR? Do they last as long as DVD if stored similarly? Because I'd rather spend $20 a TB on BR discs than have to keep a pile of multi TB drives running in the back sucking up juice.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Thursday June 18 2015, @02:13AM
On that note, is there an existing mirror? If not, methinks it behooves someone with the know-how and resources to make one. (Which, sad to say, is not me.)
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.