svn2github's WP34S SVN mirror on GitHub

[Claudio L.]

(02-03-2016 08:34 AM)damaltor Wrote:  Sure, for example read this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-...n-help-it/
or this:
http://www.golem.de/news/nmap-sourceforg...14470.html

TLDR: Sourceforge captures "unused" or "old" projects, restricts any access from the developers (!!), and sometimes bundles "value added services" in form of an adware installer to the downloads. The definition of "old accounts" varies, could be no login for time x, or no updates for time y, or anything else.

That matter was settled some time ago and those practices have been discontinued.

When a company grows, the "bean counters" always try to take over and force things like this to happen. The negative press helped the developers take back control from the bean counters and they made it right.
I use github for other projects, and it does a better job for contributing to "big projects" (pull requests, etc.), but Sourceforge has a better interface to publish binary files to final users.
So when I want to contribute to somebody else's project, I use Github, when it's my own project and if it needs to publish binaries, I use Sourceforge.
Creating unofficial mirrors doesn't necessarily help a project. I found projects with multiple forks in github, where each person pulls the original code at some point in time, makes a few tiny modifications to suit their needs (mostly undocumented and possibly broken), and then abandons the code there. When you search for the original project, you find all these outdated forks and have to decipher which one is the latest unmodified official one. That doesn't help either.