NewsForge: SourceForge.net director says Geocrawler and SourceForge.net are healthy

“The SourceForge.net email archives at Geocrawler.com
are not going away, as some users fear. Instead, they’re just
moving — to SourceForge itself.

A message on Geocrawler last week, saying the site was no longer
being maintained (since taken down), caused some nervousness among
SourceForge users. In particular, Advogato.org posted a story
worrying about alternatives to SourceForge should it fall victim of
bad economic times. Advogato’s evidence of problems at SourceForge:
The Geocrawler list, a “core service” of SourceForge, was no longer
being maintained. (NewsForge, SourceForge and Geocrawler are all
owned by VA Linux.)

The author of the Advogato piece suggested that Open Source
project leaders should explore alternatives to SourceForge:
‘SourceForge has been an incredibly valuable resource over its
lifetime. It would be quite a shame to see it go, and this cat
sincerely hopes they find a way to stay afloat in these turbulent
seas. That said, it’s never a good idea to be vulnerable to the
failure of one server, or one company. It’s also not the free
software way. The need to keep good backups is as strong as it ever
was.'”

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