On Tue, 2015-07-21 at 07:19 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote: > On 21/07/15 05:18, Nils Pipenbrinck wrote: > > On 07/21/2015 04:53 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote: > > > > > I am not very thrilled by moving from sf to github, because ghdl > > > has > > > already moved twice in the past. Too many moves may lost users > > > and > > > contributors. > > > > The problem is that sf.net recently starts to wrap an installer > > around > > binaries that bundles open-source projects with crapware. > > Ok, I haven't realized that every project could be affected.
As far as I know they only do that on projects/accounts they have taken ownership of after long inactivity. Are there really active projects for which SF bundles its crapware? If there are, I wouldn't b surprised if it was with maintainer's consent, as a way to monetize the project... Of course there are strong reasons for going out of SF. But my opinion is not really how to choose SF vs Github vs something else, it's rather that cantralization has advantages only if the platform never comes down. SF is down for a currently unknown reason, GitHub got DDoS for reasons linked to other projects. Fortunately nothing was lost on github, but maybe it's just a matter of time. Also the seriousness of the SF issue not yet known. The ideal solution would be one that could be fully replicated/mirrored regularly, like dayly, to an independant location that can be used as fallback. I think it's important to have a reliable fallback location to use when shit happens or when wanting to relatively painlessely switching to another big platform (whatever the reason). I know git can be configured with hooks to do that automatically on all commits (that's done at my lab), but I'm not aware of platforms github -like where this wound be possible for tickets, wiki, etc. Are there ? Regards, Adrien _______________________________________________ Ghdl-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/ghdl-discuss
