Downloads policy of Google Code changed

[Marc van Woerkom]

Thanks for that interesting report.
I checked the site and found this announcement:

http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2013/05/a-change-to-google-code-download-service.html

There they recommend to move new downloads to Google drive.
I don't know however, if this is a reasonable option for a FreeBSD port.

Regards,
Marc


2014-04-02 14:35 GMT+02:00 Dr. Rolf Jansen <rj at obsigna.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I am the developer of a port (sysutils/clone) which is hosted on Google
> Code (https://code.google.com/p/clone/). In the past, I prepared release
> snapshots for the ports tree to be downloaded from the very projects site.
>
> At the end of the last year, Google Code changed their policy to not to
> allow anymore new downloads from the projects sites, while old downloads
> are still available, at least for the time being.
>
> I am going to prepare a new release for the FreeBSD ports, and I am now in
> doubt where to place the release snapshot of the source code:
>
> Questions:
> Is it acceptable for FreeBSD, if I would place new snapshots on one of my
> personal sites?
> How do others deal with the new policy on GC?
> Is it perhaps better to move the whole project to another service, which
> one?
>
> Best regards
>
> Rolf
>
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