On 4/21/06, Dana Olson <dana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 19:00 -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Dana Olson wrote: > > > > >The point is, it has been reliable for thousands of projects, including > > >several of my own. Where is Specimen's page right now? Nowhere. If it > > >was on SourceForge, we'd all be able to get to it. > > > > > >I was merely offering a suggestion to benefit the community as a whole, > > >but you all see fit to ridicule me. That's great, thanks. > > > > > > > > Sorry, Dana, I certainly wasn't ridiculing you. Unfortunately, your > > suggestion came at a time when SF has been a beeyatch to work with over > > the last month or so. See the Csound list, the Common Music list, and so > > on. And this isn't the first time they've been a pain. > > > > Apologies extended. The irony was in my face and I did not resist > > temptation. I rarely do: I never know if it'll come again... ;) > > > > Best, > > > > dp > > > Alright, understood... > > SF has been reliable for me for many years. They're bound to run into > problems occasionally, and so it happened as you said. > > For another example of where I think using SF would have benefitted us > as a community, have a look at LinuxSampler's homepage. Since December, > you have been unable to download source tarballs, because they > experience a hardware failure. This made packaging a PITA, especially > for someone as new to making .debs as I am, because whenever possible, > you are encouraged to use the source tarball releases, and not a CVS > checkout. But we had no choice. > > In any case, ok, I understand where you guys are coming from. > > How about berlios, i know a large number of good projects hosted there..... ;) Berlios is really nice though, no crappy ads and you don't have to use crippled ancient CVS anymore! yay for svn. ;-) It's also pretty fast and reliable. Loki
