Re: [Repo-criteria-discuss] Fwd: Re: repo-criteria-evaluation

[Aaron Wolf]

On 04/28/2016 04:19 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> On 2016-04-28 04:00, Mike Gerwitz wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 18:37:28 +0100, address@hidden wrote:
>>> sure:
>>> https://github.com/blog/2146-organizations-can-now-block-abusive-users
>>>
>>> "This feature allows project owners to block users, and prevents blocked
>>> users from opening or commenting on issues or pull requests, forking
>>> repositories, and adding or editing wiki pages."
>>
>> Okay, so this is in a per-user basis.
>>
>> Personally, if I'm understanding this correctly, I think that's
>> okay---GNU project maintainers are free to block abusive users.  I can
>> see how it might be abused, but this isn't indiscriminate blocking.
>>
>>> The really important thing though is making people aware that
>>> sourceforge
>>> has inserted malware into peoples programs. Including the GIMP
>>> installer I
>>> think.
>>
>> Are they still doing that today, though?
>>
>> I agree with Yui Hirasawa---they've come under new management, and
>> unless they're still doing it today, I think we don't have much choice
>> but to see what happens next; they've expressed desire to stop those bad
>> practices.
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Gerwitz
>> Free Software Hacker | GNU Maintainer & Volunteer
>> https://mikegerwitz.com
>> FSF Member #5804 | GPG Key ID: 0x8EE30EAB
> 
> I don't know what you mean. Yui Hirasawa is cartoon character from "K-ON".
> 
> are our emails part of some wider discussion I am not seeing?
> 

Yui (regardless of real name or whatever) is right. Sourceforge was
acquired by new owners who published an announcement rejecting all the
shittiness of the past owners and promising to do things right. I
suspect they would even be possibly on par with GitLab in being open to
actively working with us toward passing the core criteria. I hope
someone reaches out to them.

It would definitely be inappropriate to use the past history of
shittiness to give Sourceforge any extra bad marks in our review at this
point (especially since the concerns aren't directly related to the
criteria).