Re: Leaving SF

Hi Fabian and all,

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Fabian Keil <[email protected]> wrote:
> Roberto Galoppini <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  My name is Roberto Galoppini and I am on duty to grow and expand the
>> SourceForge ecosystem. As Daniel's former manager I was aware of the
>> on-going discussion, but I must I've lost the last updates since he is not
>> working for us anymore.
>>
>> I promise only what I can deliver. The "no-JS editing on tickets" seems key
>> for you, and I could commit to that by changing our actual priorities.
>>
>> Let me know if that's enough for you to change your mind and stay with us.
>> SourceForge has proven by the facts to a number of projects that we care
>> about our communities, but I need to be pragmatic since our engineering
>> resources are limited at the present time (we are hiring!).
>
> Please have a look at:
> http://ijbswa.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ijbswa/current/TODO?revision=1.107&view=markup#l363
> for a couple of things we intend to look at when evaluating hosters.

I've reviewed the bulleted list, and it seems to me that we are
scoring pretty well, though. Actually by hosting your project with us
you're in full control of which tools are enabled, you can always
migrate if you want and you can even run your own instance of the very
same hosting platform (being Allura a top level Apache project).

While display advertising is how we pay our bills and can't be
removed, we have a process in place to allow everyone to let us know
about malicious ads, see
http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-blockthis-initiative-update/

We can commit to close the no-JS editing if that's game changing for
you, something we wouldn't invest time and effort otherwise since you
are the only project asking for.

As soon as you'll let me know which is your final decision I'll plan
our engineering efforts accordingly.

Best,

Roberto



> In short, the "no-JS editing on tickets" regression is a disadvantage
> for SF, but it's not the only one.
>
> Fabian

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