Wither SourceForge?



I agree. I also do not think that SourceForge is going to shut down
their services and don't let us save maxima CVS tree. At least
such a possibility seems to be rather improbable.

Vadim

James Amundson wrote:

> I have put off responding to this message because I think it deserves
> careful consideration. I have read the article in question. I also read
> a similar article by the same author on advogato.org and other similar
> commentaries. The article makes me consider several questions, which are
> not necessarily the those raised by the author:
>
> 1) Are we, the Maxima project, getting good service from SourceForge? I
> would say yes, absolutely. I have been very happy with the service
> overall.
>
> 2) Are we too reliant on SourceForge? This is a more complicated
> question. Obviously, we could move somewhere else. The mere fact that we
> could is an argument that we are not too reliant on SF. However, if
> SourceForge were to shut down all its servers tomorrow, we would not
> have an adequate backup of the project. Unfortunately, I don't have any
> bright ideas about how to do periodic backups. I am open to suggestions.
>
> 3) Are we compromising our open source ideals by using SourceForge?
> Before I go any further, let me say this:
>         I DO NOT WANT TO START A DEBATE ABOUT OPEN SOURCE
>         IDEALS ON THIS MAILING LIST.
> Having said (even shouted) that, I think it is clear that we are not
> compromising the ideological purity (whatever that is) of our project by
> using SourceForge. If we were to make such an argument, I think we would
> also have to stop helping people support Maxima on Windows. I don't want
> to do that.
>
> To sum up, I think we should stick with SourceForge, but we should make
> sure we have an external backup.
>
> --Jim
>
> On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 14:10, Raymond Toy wrote:
> >
> > The following link was posted on the CMUCL mailing list.
> >
> > http://www.rons.net.cn/english/FSM/loic
> >
> > Perhaps this is relevant to maxima users (as well as other SourceForge
> > projects).
> >
> > Ray
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