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SourceForge Eliminates DevShare Program (sourceforge.net)
SourceForge has officially eliminated its DevShare program. The DevShare program delivered installer bundles as part of the download for participating projects. We want to restore our reputation as a trusted home for open source software, and this was a clear first step towards that. We are more interested in doing the right thing than making extra short-term profit. This is just the first step in a number of improvements we will outline in the coming weeks. SourceForge and Slashdot were acquired in late January by BIZX.
Yeah and we are focused on fixing all the issues that have caused projects to move.
Do you understand we just bought the site last week? We didn't see a dime from the DevShare program since we weren't the owners. The first thing we did when we purchased the site is remove the program.
The majority of the good open source apps have moved to GitHub over this
At the rate Github is going, it won't be around much longer either.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
It is a long and proud tradition here to not read the article. The summary given does not mention the sale, so it is a pretty easy mistake to make.
Our overarching philosophy for SourceForge is that it needs to be a trusted destination free of any sort of malicious adware or deceptive advertising. We are committed to achieving this. Eliminating DevShare was the first step. Establishing SourceForge as a trusted open source destination is our main goal.
Thanks for the support. Keep your $15 for now. We're doing this because we want these sites to live up to their former potential, and if we do this correctly, then legitimate advertising dollars will support the business instead of bundled warez and deceptive ads. Hope you keep posting. We will definitely look at the karma/ad thing though.
Cool. Well we just eliminated bundled installers so look at it however you please
Me? My name is Logan Abbott and I am the president of SourceForge. Check my twitter at @loganabbott and the slashdot icon next to my name
1) we won't bundle anything. however you should be aware some project owners bundle their own incarnations that are not beneficial to users 2) we are removing any deceptive advertising 3) right
Sometimes it's hard for people to trust /. users with 7 digit UIDs ...
I am not sure about this but will definitely investigate. Thanks.
35 million monthly unique users say otherwise.
A bit unrelated: I was just browsing your website (the one in your signature), and was noting that I couldn't watch the embedded youtube video (talking about this video). They are included as html object element and require flash to be played (which I don't have). Its better to support HTML5 as well by using a more modern embedding code via iframes. It will still offer a fallback for users who can't play back html5 videos, e.g. on outdated browsers. You can get the embed code by clicking "share" and then "embed".
Off topic I know but I wanted to say I appreciate the changes that have happened to slashdot as well. I look at the front page and there is only 1 story I would remove (The Anthropology sexual abuse one) and the rest are ones that I was actually interested to read about. I compare that to a fortnight ago and the difference is massive.
So thank you Whiplash.
And if you are interested these are the reasons why I would remove the Anthropology story
* Click bait headline - There is no way a single incident would "Rock" an entire global sector or industry.
* It isn't related to science, technology or anything that I would call Nerd worthy. You could change the word Anthropology for anything and the story doesn't change. It is a people story.
* Read the comments. There isn't anything to really discuss. Either you think the guy was a fuckwit or you think someone over reacted. There is no grey zones to discuss. No expert that could come in and give me a nugget of information that I didn't know.
* Sciencehabit is a posting bot. He / She / It isn't part of this community. I suspect there is a multi-poster somewhere with their credentials loaded into it and the only thing they are doing is trying to drive traffic to sciencemag.org having posted the same stuff to every site they could.
You do realize Sourceforge, like Slashdot, is under new ownership now, right? What they've done here is show that they are willing and able to listen to the community, unlike previous owners of the property. Just sayin'.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
This is all untrue.
As an example, her PowerPoint slide said "white women can be some of the biggest obstacles", which is quite different from "white WOMEN are the enemy". The other claim is just an outright lie.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
This is all untrue.
As an example, her PowerPoint slide said "white women can be some of the biggest obstacles", which is quite different from "white WOMEN are the enemy". The other claim is just an outright lie.
"white women can be some of the biggest obstacles" ---- Because that's so much better.