Re: Sourceforge

On 05/28/2015 10:06 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> All,
>
> Based on this:
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/646118/

Oops, subscriber-only story (I recommend subscribing to LWN, btw).

Here's the background material:

https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe
https://lwn.net/Articles/646180/
https://sourceforge.net/blog/advertising-bundling-community-and-criticism/
https://lwn.net/Articles/564250/

Summary is:

a) Sourceforge has started bundling installers on some projects with
adware, without notifying the downloading users;

b) Sourceforge has started taking over projects which they deem
abandoned, and there is no appeal/reversal of this takeover.

>
> ... it would be great if someone could check on the various mirrors of
> PostgreSQL packages on Sourceforge, and make sure that (a) someone from
> our project still owns them, and (b) they're still offering actual
> Postgres downloads.
>
> Overall, I would suggest that we probably want to disable all Postgres
> content mirrors on Sourceforge.  We don't really have the spare time to
> maintain them, and this incident shows that that's a bad situation.
>
>


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Josh Berkus
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