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I agree with what the others are saying, there's a lot of source code for solving obscure programs that is only on Sourceforge. One example I found recently is a program…",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},"9790298","coliveira","This seems much more like a temporary fix, not really a solution. A few years from now GitHub can do the same thing that sf did. This after all seems to be the fate of commercial…",{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},"9791522","egsec","Note 1: Moving things to GitHub or elsewhere does not remove them from SourceForge. So SF can continue to host and enjoy links on unmaintained websites, search engines etc. Note…",{"value":63,"source":64,"evidence":65},"Preserve source code of unmaintained SourceForge projects","inferred",[66,67],{"id":51,"by":52,"text":53},{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"9790132","Osmium","Honestly, this is a serious issue for my field. There are so many obscure academic binaries hosted on SF... I hope someone manages to mirror them. [The fact that a lot of the…",[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":75,"objections":85,"requests":101,"questions":117,"alternatives":123},[76],{"value":77,"source":48,"evidence":78},"Valuable effort to preserve obscure source code",[79,80,81],{"id":51,"by":52,"text":53},{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"9790379","caseysoftware","Yes, this is a more challenging and potentially risky one. I think you're taking the right approach by capturing the code and the history. In fact, I think you're going above and…",[86,94],{"value":87,"source":48,"evidence":88},"GitHub is a commercial provider and may not last",[89,93],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"9790089","pavlov","Why Github? Copying from one commercial provider to another doesn't solve the fundamental problem. Using git helps, but most of those old repos will never get cloned. In 10 years…",{"id":55,"by":56,"text":57},{"value":95,"source":48,"evidence":96},"Binaries are not mirrored",[97],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"9790179","TazeTSchnitzel","Why aren't you mirroring the binaries? These are vital for people in the future who do not have the time to set up a build environment for software from a decade ago. I'd also…",[102,110],{"value":103,"source":48,"evidence":104},"Mirror binaries as well as source",[105,106],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"9790805","jaytaylor","What about creating a torrent containing all these unmaintained SF projects (with binary downloads included)? This would dramatically increase the odds that the content is never…",{"value":111,"source":48,"evidence":112},"Support SVN repositories",[113],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"9792678","frik","> Currently, for each cloned project, we mirror its CVS repository and its website. Please add \"SVN\" (Subversion)",[118],{"value":119,"source":48,"evidence":120},"Why GitHub rather than a neutral host",[121,122],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},{"id":59,"by":60,"text":61},[124,132,143],{"value":125,"source":48,"evidence":126},"Archive Team",[127,128],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"9789994","lcswi","Nice! But in my opinion better help archiveteam with their efforts!",{"value":133,"source":48,"evidence":134},"GitLab",[135,139],{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},"9790706","yellowapple","> Point me to a good alternative to github that matches all your ideals. A free alternative to github - free as in beer, unless you're willing to fund this effort yourself, of…",{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"9791335","sytse","At GitLab you are very welcome. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.",{"value":144,"source":48,"evidence":145},"Savannah",[146,150],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"9790378","riffraff","savannah? In don't think it's a very good alternative and I subscribe to the \"we'll fix ten years problems in ten years\" but it doesn't have the same issues.",{"id":136,"by":137,"text":138},{"comments":38,"answered":152,"key":153},2,[154,157,160],{"id":155,"text":156},"9790196","For now, Github is not ad-ridden as SourceForge is. Github is monetizing some repositories: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fpricing I don't know if they're sustainable, but from my naive…",{"id":158,"text":159},"9790225","Regarding binaries, I know these could be useful and I'd like to provide them, but I'm afraid some \"not (yet?) very popular mirroring project\" can't show how we can trust it…",{"id":161,"text":162},"9790023","I confess my ignorance regarding archive.org's various collections. 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