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Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by david-given »

scrollaway wrote: post #36
david-given wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where to, if I may ask? I have some small projects I'm trying to get away from SF, and the mailing lists are the hardest bit --- finding mailing list providers which support bulk import isn't easy.

Discourse is what we're currently looking at. They have very nice pricing options for both one-time-installs and continued hosting/support.

I looked at Discourse, and for the scale of my projects the pricing is unmanageable. Hosted by them it's $1000+ a year; hosted by me it's still $100+ a year ($200+ for the first year). Installing it and running it myself requires spinning up a moderately high-end docker instance, which I'm unwilling to do (not only does it cost money, but I've only just managed to stop running my own servers, and it's great).

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#42

Post by lcswi »

easytiger wrote: post #29
ghshephard wrote: post #6

As a daily user of Tmux, I can't tell you how happy I am that they've bailed out of there. It was always really odd to me that they weren't either on a self-hosted CVS server somewhere or on GitHub - how all is well in the world.

Mailing lists on google groups, which is fine by me, but annoys a lot of people.

Especially because you cannot even read them without JavaScript or signing up.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by scrollaway »

david-given wrote: post #41
scrollaway wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discourse is what we're currently looking at. They have very nice pricing options for both one-time-installs and continued hosting/support.

I looked at Discourse, and for the scale of my projects the pricing is unmanageable. Hosted by them it's $1000+ a year; hosted by me it's still $100+ a year ($200+ for the first year). Installing it and running it myself requires spinning up a moderately high-end docker instance, which I'm unwilling to do (not only does it cost money, but I've only just managed to stop running my own servers, and it's great).

Why don't you pick the one-time install ($100) on a server you already own? If your ML is low-traffic there's no reason it should cost you much more than a couple dollars a month.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by tenfingers »

caf wrote: post #10

I notice they're using Google Groups for mailing lists - how have people found Google Groups as a technical mailing list provider?

Horrid. Besides poor threading (I'm speaking about the UI itself), it's unbelievable how HEAVY google groups feels when loading and using their web interface. It's so sad to think that google groups was the best interface ever to nntp in the past when it took over dejanews.

But it doesn't stop there. I had endless problems with regular subscribers ending up as junk. Likewise, as a subscriber, I had several issues in the past with subscription, where I had to contact the owner of the list and "debug" the issue (like there's anything to debug really: it just goes to junk and there's nothing you can do).

It doesn't help that google groups doesn't show prominently the fact that it's a regular list you can subscribe to without creating any account.

Fortunately, google groups generally plays well with gmane.org, so as long as they don't screw that up, I couldn't care less.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

#47

Post by z-e-r-o »

david-given wrote: post #41
scrollaway wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Discourse is what we're currently looking at. They have very nice pricing options for both one-time-installs and continued hosting/support.

I looked at Discourse, and for the scale of my projects the pricing is unmanageable. Hosted by them it's $1000+ a year; hosted by me it's still $100+ a year ($200+ for the first year). Installing it and running it myself requires spinning up a moderately high-end docker instance, which I'm unwilling to do (not only does it cost money, but I've only just managed to stop running my own servers, and it's great).

Have a look at discoursehosting.com, they have been around for quite some time and they offer 3rd party discourse hosting for much lower price compared to the official discourse.org hosting.

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by boundlessdreamz »

lloeki wrote: post #39
smaili wrote: post #3

Are there any big projects still using SourceForge? I know "big" is a little subjective here, but it seems like most active projects have already migrated.

ScummVM, Inkscape and wkhtmltopdf seem to be hosted there.

Not wkhtmltopdf - It is on github and has been for some time. https://github.com/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf

It was never on sourceforge as far as I know. It was in Google Code and then later github

Re: Tmux has left SourceForge

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Post by mintplant »

david-given wrote: post #35
scrollaway wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're in the process of fully removing ourselves from Sourceforge (LXDE). At work (Pootle), we're also moving our mailing lists away from Sourceforge. They were the last bit of SF we still used.

Where to, if I may ask? I have some small projects I'm trying to get away from SF, and the mailing lists are the hardest bit --- finding mailing list providers which support bulk import isn't easy.

GroupServer [1] is very nice, a hybrid between an online forum interface and a fully-functional mailing list. The installation and configuration process is fairly involved, though, but turnkey hosting is available through OnlineGroups.net [2], from $2/month [3].

[1] http://groupserver.org

[2] https://onlinegroups.net/, https://onlinegroups.net/l/groupserver

[3] https://onlinegroups.net/pricing/

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