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.