Re: Leaving SF

Roberto Galoppini <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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).

How do I disable the bug, feature and support trackers?

My impression is that this is not actually possible and when
I asked before, I didn't get an answer.

I just noticed that the trackers can't even be trusted to properly
display comments, so I'd prefer to disable them for now and let users
use the mailing lists instead:
https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/support-requests/1645/

> 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/

You could serve ads yourself using secure connections or you
could partner with more trustworthy ad companies.

You could also allow projects to pay a reasonable monthly fee to
get the trackers removed.

> 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.

Can you estimate how long this would take?

We are not done evaluating alternatives yet anyway, so if the problem
could be fixed in the new future we could evaluate SF as if the
trackers were working.

I don't share your enthusiasm and assume SF will look worse than
some of the alternatives anyway, but it would certainly look less
bad if the trackers were considered working.

Fabian

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