Re: [boost] sourceforge and release hosting

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 4:06 AM, Norbert Wenzel < norbert.wenzel.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

On 06/10/2015 10:34 AM, Michael Ainsworth wrote:

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On 10 Jun 2015, at 1:20 pm, Adam Walling wrote: Should releases be hosted somewhere other than sourceforge?

I've ran across this regarding boost twice this week, and I'm sure we are all well aware of the history of problems that sourceforge has been accumulating

For those new to the boost mailing lists such as myself can you provide a reference to catch us up?

I don't know about the original author, but I've seen a discussion about leaving Sourceforge on Reddit recently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/397mt5/someone_needs_to_convince_the_b...

So this might be one of the times the author ran across that topic.

Even if we don't want to make a change like this at this time, I think it would be worth investigating other options for making releases. Off the top of my head: * Downloads directly on the boost.org site or some boost maintianed subdomain/server (bandwidth is a *lot* cheaper than it was 10 years ago) * Using github releases[1], downside being that each file has to be less than 1GB, which the windows binaries release passes. * Using microsoft's code plex[2], downside - microsoft is moving away from it...to github. Tom [1]https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software [2]http://www.codeplex.com/