[flac-dev] Strange things happening at SourceForge

MauritsVB mauritsvb at xs4all.nl
Thu May 28 04:05:45 PDT 2015


> 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



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