[Psc] Provide release downloads on sourceforge?

[bartvde at osgis.nl]

+1 on using geoext.org for downloads.

Best regards,
Bart

> 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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