Re: OT - sourceforge

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On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Seg, 2016-03-14 at 08:54 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> On 03/13/2016 08:12 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> >
>> > On Sun, Mar 13, 2016 at 9:15 PM, David Timms <dtimms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Hi, I've worked out what seemed to be a correct URL for for
>> > > rakarrack
>> > > spec, now that it is accessed via git within the sf website:
>> > >
>> > > I couldn't work out how to fit the sourceforce git URLs from:
>> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Sourceforge.ne
>> > > t
>> > > or
>> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Git_Hosting_Se
>> > > rvices
>> > >
>> > > to suit. Any ideas for a standard way to handle sf git snapshots
>> > > ?
>> > Move them to github. Seriously. Sourceforge has been playing
>> > various
>> > games to avoid accessing content without going through their
>> > adveritising functions since they were first founded, and I've
>> > found
>> > no reason to work with any project hosted there
>> > since.....  checking
>> > old notes, not since 2009.
>
> Devshare (I think it is called devshare) was a mistake and only happens
> on windows, and all the fault can't be impute to sf.net. sf.net was and
> still is an important organization that support open source and free
> software .

I didn't mention Devshare. I referred to the confusing and difficult
to predict mishmosh of redirects, used to force developers like myself
to click thorugh at least one page of undesired graphical
advertisement to get a working URL for the actual source code.
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