New Python development process (SourceForge considered Harmful?)

[Tom]

Yes, SF provides a valuable service, but there are certainly reasons for
caution.

Though SF currently only shows ads for other Open Source products, there is
no guarantee that this won't change.  It is standard practise to gradually
and quietly introduce such changes once one is well established in a market.
And once projects are setup on SF and users are used to it, it will be very
hard to move.

So, they already display banner ads, and they already use a delay before
displaying page content (after the ad is displayed).  If I was wrong, and
they were really dedicated to the productivity of their users, they wouldn't
use this 'after ad' delay.

Tom


"Cary O'Brien" <cobrien at Radix.Net> wrote in message
news:8qss6t$7i$1 at saltmine.radix.net...
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> Does anyone else worry about the continuing increasing reliance on
> SourceForge by the "OpenSource Community" (for lack of a better term)?
> It seems like almost everything is moving there.
>
> I'm sure that the VA people have dedicated and will continue to
> dedicate plenty of human and financial resources to keeping
> SourceForge working well, in fact they seem to relish the challenge.
> But still, it is a single point of failure.  Not to compare apples and
> oranges too much, but I think the "Python Community" hasn't yet fully
> recovered from the Starship disk crash.  So even if you assume the
> best intensions from VA et al, it the situation worries me.  The
> conspiracy-minded out there can undoubtedly come up with even darker
> scenarios.
>
> My new motto is "Anything that reduces diversity deserves scrutiny".
> Anyone know what that would be in latin?
>
> [snip the rest, sounds great, keep up the good work]
>
> -- cary
>