[Psc] Provide release downloads on sourceforge?

[Eric Lemoine]

On Thursday, June 4, 2009, Tim Schaub <tschaub at opengeo.org> wrote:
> Hey-
>
> Andreas Hocevar wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to propose that we provide our release downloads on
>> sourceforge. If that's fine with everyone, I'll set up an account and
>> prepare everything.
>>
>> Thoughts? Votes?
>
> I'm slightly opposed, though easily convinced otherwise.  Maybe it's a
> dumb grudge, but Sourceforge ads have always bugged me over the years.
>
> Potentially more valid reasons to host at geoext.org:
>
> * one fewer account / set of credentials to maintain
> * release process can be scripted (maybe sf provides a nice api for upload)
>
> Again, not fully opposed, just slightly.  If we do go with outside
> hosting, I'd prefer google code.  Compare
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/geoserver/ with
> http://code.google.com/p/jqueryjs/ .  Maybe I'm just being snobby about ads.

I agree with Tim and his reasons not to use sf.  And what would be the
benefit of using sf here? I think that people susceptible to use
GeoExt and download a release will easily find geoext.org. But maybe
I'm overlooking things and we do have good reasons to use it, it's
just that I can't see good reasons at this point.

Thanks,


>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andreas.
>>
>
>
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