SourceForge Suspends Independent Project Mirroring

vivaoporto writes: In a reversal motivated by community concerns (like the high profile outcry over the distribution of an ads-enabled installer for GIMP and the accusation by Fyodor of the hijacking of the nmap SourceForge project), SourceForge has discontinued third-party bundling of mirrored content.

Along with that, as of June 18th, SourceForge started "removing SourceForge-maintained mirrored projects" and engaging their "newly-formed Community Panel to discuss site features and program policies including a redesigned mirror program." Of the 295 mirrored projects, they removed all that were "not co-maintained with one or more of the original developers, except where the upstream site has been discontinued." For those wanting to reach SourceForge for some constructive feedback, they point to the recently-established Community Voice forum. Note: SourceForge and Slashdot share a corporate overlord.

Comments

This is Slashdot's first article on the topic...

[bit trollent]

In case you were wondering -

Yes, a scamware company which installs unremovable software to user's computers has editorial control over Slashdot.

Question - where should Slashdot users go? We obviously can't stay here.

Re:Alternatives to Slashdot?

[edibobb]

http://gawker.com/ is pretty similar.

Hopeful for FreeFileSync Without Volsteran

[BrendaEM]

I've been using an old version for six months because I couldn't get a copy without Volseran malware.

I wrote about it on Slashdot, but my article was never posted, as are most of my stuff, probably because I am female.

Re:Good job Dice

[slashdice]

heh, when I was living at the geek compound, we had a soda vending machine (perhaps the only one with diet coke, mt dew, and jolt) and a candy vending machine. The candy machine had some candy (mostly for cowboy neil) but also had anal lube, condoms (not that anybody ever used one), and amyl nitrate. I think cowboy neil knocked it over one night in a fit of rage, probably because it wouldn't give the fat ass twizzlers or something.