Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account
by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @10:50AM
(#9652958)
Archiving SourceForge is indeed important. Just recently I needed it to hook up a printer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/usbtb%20-%2...
Re:Sourceforge Hijacks the Nmap Sourceforge Account
by castell on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @07:41AM
(#9651854)
We need a open source community website that manages and links to the download-mirrors (HEANET, etc.). There is no need to backup the downloads, just back up the source code and friendly take over the control over the mirrors.
Even if you now need a VM to handle the crapware, that's better than losing the apps entirely. If somebody maintained a time-diffed mirror of SourceForge, they could pinpoint the last version before the bundling event occurred in an automated fashion, as well.
EDIT: It seems there's a project to begin this - http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=SourceForge and an IRC channel, EFNet #coldstorage