Tmux has left SourceForge

As a daily user of Tmux, I can't tell you how happy I am that they've bailed out of there. It was always really odd to me that they weren't either on a self-hosted CVS server somewhere or on GitHub - how all is well in the world.

I see SourceForge as being to code hosting platforms as GoDaddy is to domain registrars. They both started in the late 90s, exploded, and suffered from their success. They became infested with bad management, became bloated and difficult to use, and employed skeezy money-making tactics. GoDaddy doesn't seem to be in trouble the way SourceForge is, though.

Now just wait for the 'tmux.mirror' project to appear on Sourceforge, 'maintained' by the SF admins...

Are there any big projects still using SourceForge? I know "big" is a little subjective here, but it seems like most active projects have already migrated.

SourceForge was founded 1999. Now, 16 years later they start to abuse their power. GitHub was launched 2008. Does this mean we can expect GitHub to start abusing our data by 2024?

From the &quot;tmux-users&quot; mailing list:<p>&gt; Will pull requests on GitHub now be allowed as a means of contributing patches?<p>&gt; No, patches still need to come by email to me [Nicholas Marriott] or the ML.<p>I wonder, what&#x27;s the main reason behind it? What&#x27;s wrong with Github PRs?

I notice they&#x27;re using Google Groups for mailing lists - how have people found Google Groups as a technical mailing list provider?

With so many alternatives (even besides GitHub) I wonder why some took so much time to change.<p>There was Google Code, Landscape, or even self-hosted Git amongst others.

I really wish MSys2 also left SourceForge, especially since it comes with a Windows installer.

Glad to hear!<p>Small plug, but I suppose the only people reading these comments are interested in tmux: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmux-plugins" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmux-plugins</a>

Ugh, what a PITA this is going to be (my project JOE is on sourceforge and people are starting to complain). All links point to sourceforge, so how long will they take to update? When I search for &quot;TMUX source download&quot; I get sourceforge. If sourceforge takes over your abandoned project, I imagine that they will remove forwarding links to the replacement.

Do you know why souceforge.jp has become osdn.jp?<p>I usually download new tera term releases from there. (and of course ffftp)

For some background on why a team may wish to leave SourceForge, I found this earlier hn article to be enlightening:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2739995" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=2739995</a>

For the last few days, I was getting 404s on a lot of tmux links on sourceforge. Guess this explains that ;)

Everybody should, and that shouldn&#x27;t be newsworthy.

Finally.<p>I remember that the fist problem occurred to me that wasn&#x27;t not solved by Google was solved by asking in the mailing list of tmux, and now it it moved to Github, I can finally ask question at the issue page.

Great news :)

Finally !

Finally!

This is probably the commit you&#x27;re looking for<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;commit&#x2F;d2b35e19cdd61d163d26c4babccc1550e72a9623" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;tmux&#x2F;commit&#x2F;d2b35e19cdd61d163d26c4ba...</a>

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