[flac-dev] Strange things happening at SourceForge

MauritsVB
Thu, 28 May 2015 11:05:45 -0000

> MauritsVB wrote:
>
>> Ars Technica reports of ?abandoned projects? on SourceForge being taken
>> over by SourceForge with adware installers added to executables.
>>
>> This might be something to be wary of with FLAC considering the main
focus
>> for FLAC has moved from SourceForge to Xiph.org. Perhaps consider to
remove
>> the downloads from SourceForge but keep the ticket system there?
>
> I was aware of for the Win-gimp issue. What I'd like to know is how
> SF.net figures out if a project is abandoned.
>
> Erik
>
The response from SF suggests that it?s non-responsiveness from the original
project owner. Hopefully it?s limited to that.

Maurits