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Mirrors and code hosting



I know I'm not a major contributor but in working on updating our website, I've had some thoughts that I want to bring up for discussion, apparently again. Distribution: We have 3 mirrors plus the main site. They are all located in Europe failing one of the main reasons for having mirrors, avoiding intercontinental lag. SourceForge has a global network of mirrors using a "broker" to choose the nearest on a single URL. But SourceForge is not command line friendly.  I know I usually use copy link in my Windows browser to paste to wget in a PuTTY session to download software for unix.  The mirrors are command line friendly, but I've already pointed out one problem.  Another is that lists of mirrors always leaves a user wondering which to use and may be seen as antiquated. Maybe we should abandon the list of mirrors on our download page and consider command line friendly alternatives to SourceForge for our repository and web-hosting.

The first alternative that probably comes to most of our minds is GitHub. Lately they have begun forcing AI on their users without opt-out capability.

Other alternatives are GitLab or Codeberg. GitLab is commercial but has a generous free-tier for FOSS projects. Codeberg is a co-op type of hosting service for FOSS projects.  Both have world-wide mirror networks, taking managing that off our hands.

I know it's a pretty radical suggestion and maybe presumptuous, but I thought I'd bring it up for discussion.



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